To some people, the name “Nigeria” was a joke, a neologism casually flung across the table by the girlfriend of Frederick Lugard after a raunchy Saturday afternoon rutting in the tropical heat. “What shall we call the monster you’ve created, Fred? What about ‘Ni-ge-ria’? And the peopl
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