Talk:History of Lagos

Untitled

I copied this over from the main Lagos article as the basis for a detailed history of Lagos. I am cleaning up the history on the main article page and shortening it, as befits an article on a large city. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Nach0king 20:29, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

As far as I know, Lagos wasn't really a significant settlement until some time after the arrivel of the colonial powers. Before that, the Yoruba were more of an inland people, with the most important settlements (Oyo, Ife, Ibadan, etc.) all being situated quite far from the coast. This is one of the reasons for the fact that it is difficult to find Yoruba and the Yoruba coast mentioned in the records of seafaring nations of Old Europe (the Portuguese, the Dutch, and then the English). A good source is Biobaku (ed.) (1973) Sources of Yoruba History, and especially Robin Law's articles therein. (Crossposted from the African regional noticeboard.) — mark ✎ 13:06, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

That's great - thanks for the information. Do you happen to have access to that book, btw? Nach0king 16:11, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

(Sorry for the belated response.) Not at the moment (brought it back to the library some weeks ago). Maybe I'll take it up in the future, but right now I'm too busy with other things. — mark ✎ 20:01, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Merge with Lagos

I believe this article should be merged somehow with the main article Lagos. -- Qasamaan 10:03, November 26, 2006 (UTC)

I disagree, there is enough information to warrant two separate articles. Of course, Lagos should contain a summary of this article, but it's not a good idea to simply merge the two. Compare Los Angeles and History of Los Angeles. — mark ✎ 14:17, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Timeline of Lagos

What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content. Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 17:01, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on History of Lagos. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080526225431/http://lagosmegacityproject.com/history_of_lagos to http://lagosmegacityproject.com/history_of_lagos

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 19:01, 4 November 2017 (UTC)