Onitsha

Onitsha is a city located on the eastern bank of the Niger River, in Nigeria's Anambra State. A metropolitan town, Onitsha is understood for its river port and as a monetary hub for commerce, enterprise, and education. It hosts the Onitsha Main Market, the biggest market in Africa in phrases of geographical length and extent of goods. Onitsha slowly grew to emerge as a vital buying and selling port for the Royal Niger Company in the mid-1850s following the abolition of slavery and with the improvement of the steam engine while Europeans were capable of circulate into the hinterland.

Trade in palm kernels, palm oil, and different coins vegetation on the coast of Bight of Biafra improved around this river port inside the nineteenth century. In 1857 British palm oil buyers set up a everlasting station in the town with Christian missionaries joining them, headed through the liberated African bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther and Reverend John Taylor. In 1900 Onitsha has become a part of a British protectorate. The British colonial authorities and Christian missionaries penetrated most of Igbo land to set up their administration, faculties and church buildings via the river port at Onitsha.