brief history on Nigeria.

Before the 1914 there was never a country called Nigeria, the people of what is known as "Nigeria" consist of 4 different empires which was the northern empire,Benin empire, the Calabar kingdom and the Oduduwa empire. The Northern empire was composed of the borno empire, some hausa states (Zazzau, Gobir, Kano, Katsina, Birori, Daura) and some other groups (Gwari, Kebbi, Nupe, Yelwa...) in the northern part of the region then remarkably some of this states still exist to the present day. Then the Calabar kingdom which is known to be the oldest kingdom and had the oldest contact with the Europeans, it is believed to be founded around 1000 AD and has the oldest church built in Nigeria dating back to 1850. the belief of this kingdom is that the kingdom was founded by twins, and today part of this kingdom is stretched in current day Cameroon. The Oduduwa empire consist of 2 main groups, one of them was the original people which religions and culture was centered from the land of Ile-Ife; a historical and important land in the myth of the Yoruba people in current day Nigeria and the other group were the Berbels, who eventually formed the Hausa states and the Borno states. the oduduwa empire has a lot of interesting stories and legends attached to it, for instead the Oduduwa is considered the creator of the earth, and the ancestor of the Yoruba kings. According to myth, Oduduwa founded the city of Ife and dispatched his sons to establish other cities, where they reigned as priest-kings and presided over cult rituals.) lastly the Benin empire , the most powerful in the entire empires and It was very well known for it's African sculpturing.