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WHAT DOES BIGHT OF BIAFRA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bight of Biafra

Bight of Bonny

The Bight of Bonny is a bight off the West African coast, in the easternmost part of the Gulf of Guinea. It extends from the river delta of the Niger in the north until it reaches Cape Lopez in Gabon. Countries located at the Bight of Bonny are Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BIGHT OF BIAFRA

Bight of Bonny
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Bihar
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WORDS THAT END LIKE BIGHT OF BIAFRA

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Synonyms and antonyms of Bight of Biafra in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Bight of Biafra» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BIGHT OF BIAFRA

Find out the translation of Bight of Biafra to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
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Translator English - Chinese

比夫拉的海岸线
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Ensenada de Biafra
570 millions of speakers

English

Bight of Biafra
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बियाफ्रा की खलीज
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

غرور بيافرا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Байт Биафра
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Baía de Biafra
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Biafra এর সামান্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Baie de Biafra
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bight of Biafra
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bucht von Biafra
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ビアフラ湾
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비아 프라 의 하천의 만곡부
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bight of Biafra
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Bight của Biafra
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Biafra இன் Bight
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बायफ्राची तीव्रता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Biafra´nın yarısı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Golfo del Biafra
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Zatoka z Biafra
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Байт Биафра
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Golful Biafra
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Όρμος Biafra
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Bog van Biafra
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Bight Biafra
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Bight of Biafra
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Bight of Biafra

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BIGHT OF BIAFRA»

The term «Bight of Biafra» is regularly used and occupies the 96.727 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BIGHT OF BIAFRA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Bight of Biafra

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BIGHT OF BIAFRA»

Discover the use of Bight of Biafra in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Bight of Biafra and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra: An ...
The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra dissects and explains the structure, dramatic expansion, and manifold effects of the slave trade in the Bight of Biafra.
G. Ugo Nwokeji, 2010
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From Slaving to Neoslavery: The Bight of Biafra and Fernando ...
In From Slaving to Neoslavery, Ibrahim K. Sundiata offers a comprehensive history of Fernando Po, explains the continuities between slavery and free contract labor, and challenges standard notions of labor development and progress in ...
I. K. Sundiata, 1996
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Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa
This new edition revises all statistical material on the slave trade demography and incorporates recent research and an updated bibliography.
Paul E. Lovejoy, 2011
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Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring ...
—Moreau de St.-Méry, Description topographique, physique, civile, politique, et historique de la partiefrançaise de l'isle de St. Domingue,  The Bight of Biafra is discussed here separately from the Ivory Coast, the Gold Coast, and the  ...
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, 2005
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Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery
From the 1750s Liverpool took the lead among British ports gathering slaves in Sierra Leone, the Bight of Benin and the Bight of Biafra. The five Atlantic African areas that Liverpool dominated from the 1750s accounted for just over ...
David Richardson, Anthony Tibbles, Suzanne Schwarz, 2007
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Maritime Empires: British Imperial Maritime Trade in the ...
From slaves to palm oil Afro-European commercial relations in the Bight of Biafra, 1741-1841 PAUL E. LOVEJOY AND DAVID RICHARDSON Britain's abolition of its slave trade in 1807 and its subsequent efforts to suppress slave carrying by ...
David Killingray, Margarette Lincoln, Nigel Rigby, 2004
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The Republic of Biafra: Once Upon A Time in Nigeria: My ...
The Bight of Biafra is a bay or branch of the Atlantic Ocean in West Africa, an inroad or inlet from where the ocean flows toward the innermost bay of the Gulf of Guinea, the River Niger delta areas in Nigeria, northern Gabon, Cameroon and ...
Dr. Onyema Nkwocha, Onyema Nkwocha, 2010
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A History of Nigeria
Despite the great profits available, the slave trade in the Bight of Biafra was not dominated by the activities of centralized states as it was in the Bight of Benin. The societies of southeastern Nigeria, where the Bight of Biafra is located, ...
Toyin Falola, Matthew M. Heaton, 2008
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African Americans in the Nineteenth Century: People and ...
African. Ethnicity. in. North. America. A majority of the Africans brought to North America came primarily from the three regions on the West Coast of Africa known as the Bight of Biafra (located on the middle West Coast below the Bight of Benin)  ...
Dixie Ray Haggard, 2010
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Slave Captain: The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool ...
All of the voyages in which he participated between 1783 and 1788 obtained slaves in the Bight of Biafra. This area supplied more than 326,000 slaves to the transatlantic trade between 1780 and 1800 and accounted for over one-fifth of all  ...
Suzanne Schwarz, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BIGHT OF BIAFRA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Bight of Biafra is used in the context of the following news items.
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Nigerian Qua Iboe May crude loadings fall to 367742 b/d from April's …
... ExxonMobil is scheduled to load five. Qua Iboe is produced from a number of offshore oil fields in the Bight of Biafra. Article continues below. «Platts, Mar 15»
2
13 facts about slavery in Africa
... European ship captains, such as the Vili traders north of the Congo and the Efik in the Bight of Biafra, and the groups that supplied the slaves, ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Mar 15»
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Aengus Finucane: In the Heart of Concern - How a priest's concern …
... Constellations nearing the end of their lives – dodging the Nigerian MiGs supplied from East Germany over the Bight of Biafra,” Forsyth said. «Irish Times, Feb 15»
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Biafra Lest We Forget: Forgive, But Never Forget
'Bight of Biafra'' was removed and replaced with ''Bight of Bonny''. Even our fore fathers in a popular proverb recognize the importance of ... «spyghana.com, Jan 15»
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FG's Cancellation of Military Training By US
... military African command between the Gulf of Guinea and the Bight of Biafra, and our military is alleged of harbouring loyalists to the cause of ... «AllAfrica.com, Dec 14»
6
Lord Lugard and indirect rule: Legacies (1)
... was a consul to the Bight of Biafra – are consuls not accredited to a king or state? We had another consul for Bonny, Degema, Calabar etc. «BusinessDay, May 14»
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Oscar Hopes Aside, We Must Celebrate Our Own Achievements
... Serer, Fulani, Congo/Zaire/Angola, Sengal, Mali, Yoruba, Ewe and the Dahomcy, Senegambia, Cameroonians near the Bight of Biafra. «The Root, Jan 14»
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Centenary Celebrations - Kogi, Niger Feud Over Amalgamation House
... name for the new country and "the delegates came up with names such as Bight of Biafra, Oduduwa, Amina, Bagauda, Nagwamatse, Sudan. «AllAfrica.com, Oct 13»
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Celebrating 175 years of Full Freedom - Part II - Honouring our …
In the case of Jamaica, most of the enslaved Africans came from the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana, Togo and Benin) and the Bight of Biafra ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Aug 13»
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Musicians of the Week: Igbo People of Nigeria
Most Igbo slaves were taken from the Bight of Biafra (also known as the Bight of Bonny).This area included modern day southeastern Nigeria, ... «Patriotic Vanguard, Mar 13»

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