NRI KINGDOM is the oldest Kingdom in Nigeria. It was founded around 900AD by the progenitor, Eri, the son of Gad. According to biblical accounts, Jacob had Leah as his wife who begot four sons for him. When Leah noticed she had passed child-bearing age, she gave her maid – servant, Zilpah to Jacob to wife, and through Zilpah he had a son named Gad. Gad then bigot Eri, who later formed a clan known as Erites vide Genesis Chapter 30 verse 9; 46 verse 16 and Numbers chapter 26 verses 15-19. Eri was therefore amongst the twelve tribes of Israel via Gad. Click here for Full Story
A son of NRI and former Kansas City Chiefs running back Christian Okoye has founded The California Sports Hall of Fame. The California Sports Hall of Fame inducted its first Hall of Fame class on January 28, 2007. Christian Okoye also serves as president of the organization. read more »
Hattiesburg-Universityof Southern Mississippi assistant professor of history Dr. Douglas Chambers says he doesn't expect his colleagues to treat him differently since he was made royalty by decendants of the king of an ancient African civilization. read more »
HATTIESBURG — An assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi has been made royalty, but he jokes that he doesn't expect any special treatment on campus. Douglas Chambers, who teaches history, has been made a traditional chief by the descendants of an ancient African civilization after he spent years read more »
The biography of Aneaso, later Archibald Monteath, is one of the few slave narratives so far recovered from the West Indies. Monteath was either Moslem, maroon, traveller, nor anti-slavery activist, categories from which Caribbean slave-narratives have come. His life-story functioned as a Moravian memoir, a sub-type of the conversion testament. read more »
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