Adamu Garba, a Presidential aspirant for the 2023 elections on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has called on the renaming of the country’s name. He says that the country should be renamed back to its pre-colonial NIGRITIA.
Garba’s claim was that many countries in Africa changed their colonial names after independence, but Nigeria preferred to stick with its colonial name. The 39-year-old has however asked the country to go back to being called Nigritia.
“If Ghana can change its name from the Colonial Gold Coast, Kenya from British East Africa, Benin from Dahomey, Togo from Togoland, etc, why would Nigeria maintain a colonially induced name?
“We should rename this country back to its pre-colonial NIGRITIA.
“Identity is everything,” Garba said proudly in a Facebook post.
Nigritia, or Negroland is an archaic term in European mapping, referring to Europeans’ descriptions of West Africa as an area populated with negroes.
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Garba’s claim was that many countries in Africa changed their colonial names after independence, but Nigeria preferred to stick with its colonial name. The 39-year-old has however asked the country to go back to being called Nigritia.
“If Ghana can change its name from the Colonial Gold Coast, Kenya from British East Africa, Benin from Dahomey, Togo from Togoland, etc, why would Nigeria maintain a colonially induced name?
“We should rename this country back to its pre-colonial NIGRITIA.
“Identity is everything,” Garba said proudly in a Facebook post.
Nigritia, or Negroland is an archaic term in European mapping, referring to Europeans’ descriptions of West Africa as an area populated with negroes..
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