The Bight of Biafra, also known as the Bight of Bonny, is a bight off the west-central African coast, in the easternmost part of the Gulf of Guinea.[1]
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The BightofBiafra, also known as the Bightof Bonny, is a bight off the west-central African coast, in the easternmost part of the Gulf of Guinea. The...
Rev. Charles W. Thomas defined the locations of islands in the BightofBiafra as "between the parallels of longitude 5° and 9° East and latitude 4° North...
To the east it continues by the Bightof Bonny (formerly BightofBiafra). The bight was named after the Kingdom of Benin. Historical associations with...
the only port of the region and it competed with the ports controlled by other nearby kingdoms on the Bightof Benin and the BightofBiafra. The Fon people...
enslaved people were taken from the BightofBiafra, a bay of the Atlantic Ocean that extends from the Nun outlet of the Niger River (Nigeria) to Limbe...
part of the Cameroon line of volcanoes and is located off the Cameroon coast, in the BightofBiafra portion of the Gulf of Guinea. Its geology is volcanic;...
settlement of the large area in the BightofBiafra to which it had treaty rights. The French expanded their occupation at the expense of the area claimed...
Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Its coastline lies on the BightofBiafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean...
a colonial American rendering of Igbo. Some Igbo slaves were also referred to as 'bites', denoting their BightofBiafra origin, and other names were used...
consisted of the indigenous Arawak Amerindian people of the surrounding Berbice region, and enslaved people shipped in from the BightofBiafra. Thus, the...
was responsible for 100 slave voyages. Over half of his slaves were embarked from the BightofBiafra. He was born in Ulverston in Lancashire. In his will...
In 2021, the Biafra Nations League launched its own insurgency against Cameroonian authorities in Bakassi. After the independence of both Nigeria and...
beginnings of the Atlantic slave trade. The port of Calabar on the historical BightofBiafra (now commonly referred to as the Bightof Bonny) became one of the...
way of Sierra Leone named William Pratt established the cocoa crop on Fernando Pó. Spain had not occupied the large area in the BightofBiafra to which...
The trade subsequently continued under the Portuguese Empire. In the BightofBiafra, the major ports were Old Calabar (Akwa Akpa), Bonny and New Calabar...
historical name formerly used for that part of coastal West Africa along the BightofBiafra and the Bightof Benin that is located between the Volta River...
which ceded the Bioko, adjacent islets, and commercial rights to the BightofBiafra between the Niger and Ogoue rivers to Spain. Spain intended to start...
Africans came mostly from the regions of Senegambia, Upper Guinea, Windward Coast, Gold Coast, Bightof Benin, BightofBiafra, and Angola. With the growing abolitionist...
islands in the BightofBiafra, Ascension Island, Saint Helena Island, Tristan da Cunha Group, and Gough Island. Volume II. Hydrographer of the Navy. 1977...
Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the BightofBiafra (also known as Bightof Bonny), which is part of the Gulf of Guinea...
(2002). "REJOINDER – The Significance of Igbo in the BightofBiafra Slave". Slavery & Abolition. 23. Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group: 101–120...
country in Central Africa, lying along the Atlantic Ocean, just south of the BightofBiafra. Area Total: 267,668 km² country rank in the world: 76th/77th Land:...
with 2,730 km2 (1,050 sq mi) of water. The country is located in Central and West Africa, bordering the BightofBiafra, between Equatorial Guinea and...
Sundiata, From Slaving to Neoslavery: The BightofBiafra and Fernando Po in the Era of Abolition, 1827–1930; Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1996; ISBN 0-299-14510-7...
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