How important is history to our identity?
Which historical sources are important to tell us who we are?
Africa Daily · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
We all grow up with an identity shaped by history – where we were born, how our parents and grandparents lived, what happened in our country, all these things shape us. But we also have agency, we have the ability to look at our history and the sources that shaped it, and interpret it for ourselves. The same historical event can mean many things to many people.
Nigeria is a country where many communities and identities are held within one nation. And the history of that nation is the source of it’s current identity. So we’ve brought together an eminent Nigerian historian and intellectual, Dr Toyin Falola, and Fu’ad Lawal the founder of archivi.ng which is a project to preserve modern history through an online newspaper archive, to discuss how history is used to shape our identities. #AfricaDaily