Bonny
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Bonny (formerly Ibani or Ubani from the Igbo language)[1] is a town and a Local Government Area in Rivers State in southeast Nigeria, on the Bight of Biafra. It was also the capital of the Kingdom of Bonny (the land of the Ibani or Eastern Ijaw). Traditionally (especially between the 15th and 19th centuries) it was a major trading post of the Ijaw people.[2]. A small island located just offshore, Bonny Island, is a major export point for oil.[3]
The region produces a type of crude oil known as Bonny Light oil. Much of the oil extracted onshore in Rivers State is piped to Bonny for export.
Kingdom of Bonny
The Kingdom of Bonny was the state of the Ibani people, the eastern sub-group of the Ijaw. It was powerful beginning in the 15th Century with the advent of the Portuguese and the following Atlantic slave trade. In the 19th Century it came under increasing pressure from the British to end the slave trade. It collapsed in the civil war of 1869.[4]
Notes
- ^ Dalby, Routledge (1971). African Language Review. Routledge. p. 251. ISBN 0-714-62690-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=NSSJqMct_fAC&pg=PA251.
- ^ "Bonny". Britannica Online Encyclopedia. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9080633/Bonny. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
- ^ Frynas, Jedrzej Georg (2000). Oil in Nigeria: Community Rights and Corporate Dominance in Conflict. LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster. p. 79. ISBN 3-825-83921-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=0W8-vc7AlFAC&pg=PA79.
- ^ Alagoa, E. J. (1971). Nineteenth Century Revolutions in the Eastern Delta states and Calabar. Journal of Historical Society of Nigeria 5(4). pp. 565–570.
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Coordinates: 4°26′N 7°10′E / 4.433°N 7.167°E / 4.433; 7.167
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