Mungo Park: Do You Know That Mungo Park Didn’t Built River Niger Bridge?

Many stories have been told about the great River Niger and it’s bridge. From written to mouth-to-ear/hearsay, mega-amount of stories has been told about discovery and erection of Niger Bridge. A huge thanks to technology and it’s advancement which made nearly all information accessible at everyone’s finger tips. Before the widespread or mega usage of internet to access information, stories and mouth-to-mouth have always been the fastest method of transferring information amongst people. Whereby clashing/mixing stories with another entire content [story] just to suit listeners was also very common during this age. Not disregarding the fact that Radio and Television were available during this period, not every home have access to them based on the expensiveness of the gadgets [It’s only affordable by the well-to-do/rich individuals].

Many Nigerians today still believes Mungo Park was the builder of Niger Bridge based on the stories told during this age. How true of is this fact? Who is Munguo Park? What is Niger Bridge? Saddle your horse and get ready to journey with us here at ANE into discovery and break-down of histories…

Nigeria as a nation has lots of scattered histories, based colonial take-over which somehow rooted majority of her [Nigeria] histories from when the British took over. However, Nigeria has tons of deep-rooted histories that has not been told – even till now.

Meanwhile, today, we here at All Naija Entertainment shall be talking about (only) River Niger, Mungo Park and Niger Bridge.

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