Abuja

City · 1828 CE · in North Africa

Capital of Federal Republic of Nigeria (1991–today).

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Around the same time and place

• Ashanti Empire (1701–1901 CE): Akan state founded by Osei Tutu with its capital at Kumasi, which grew wealthy on gold and trade and resisted British expansion in a series of wars.
• Kingdom of Dahomey (c. 1600–1904 CE): Fon kingdom centred on Abomey in present-day Benin, known for its female soldiers and its role in the Atlantic slave trade; conquered by France in 1894.
• Oyo Empire (c. 1600–1836 CE): Yoruba state that rose to dominate much of present-day western Nigeria and Benin from the 17th century using cavalry, before collapsing in the 1830s.
• Sokoto Caliphate (1804–1903 CE): Islamic state founded after Usman dan Fodio's jihad against the Hausa kingdoms, one of the largest states in 19th-century Africa until British conquest in 1903.
• Libreville (1849 CE): Capital of Gabon (1961–today).
• Usman dan Fodio (1754 CE – 1817 CE): Fulani Islamic scholar and reformer who led a jihad against the Hausa kingdoms from 1804 and founded the Sokoto Caliphate.
• Mungo Park’s second expedition down the Niger (1805–1806 CE): Park returned to West Africa with a government-backed expedition; most of his men died of disease before reaching the Niger. He built a boat at Sansanding and sailed past Timbuktu, but was killed at the Bussa rapids in present-day Nigeria.
• René Caillié’s journey to Timbuktu (1827–1828 CE): Travelling alone and disguised as a Muslim, the Frenchman René Caillié walked from the Guinea coast to Djenné, sailed down the Niger to Timbuktu and crossed the Sahara to Morocco, the first European known to return from the city.

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