- Bonny
Bonny (formerly Ibani or Ubani) is a town in
Rivers State in southeastNigeria , on theBight of Biafra . It was also the capital of the Kingdom of Bonny (the land of the Ibani or Eastern Ijawi). Traditionally (especially between the 15th and 19th centuries) it was a major trading post of the Ijaw people. [ [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9080633/Bonny Bonny - Britannica Online Encyclopedia ] ] . A small island located just offshore,Bonny Island , is a major export point for Nigerian oil being loaded onto tankers. [ [http://www.nlng.com/NLNGnew/default Home - Nigeria LNG ] ]The region produces a type of
crude oil known asBonny 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 Ijawi. 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. [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]Notes
External links
* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9080633/Bonny.asp Bonny at encyclopedia Britannica]
* [http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/b/bonny.asp Bonny at Encyclopedia.com]
* [http://purpleplanetmedia.com/bhp/pages/jaja.shtml King Jaja of Opobo at Black History Pages]
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