Oil Rivers

American  

noun

1. a region in W Africa, comprising the vast Niger River delta: formerly a British protectorate; now a part of Nigeria.

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Oil Rivers British  

plural noun

1. the delta of the Niger River in S Nigeria

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Example Sentences

There is no novelty in the Mpongwe funeral rites; the same system prevails from the Oil Rivers to Congo-land, and extends even to the wild races of the interior.

From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

I now turn to the Fetish of the Oil Rivers which I have called the Calabar school.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta

In fact, to make a clean breast of it, I do not believe big chiefs are properly buried in the Oil Rivers at all.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta

Below Yoruba comes a district, the Oil Rivers, where, alas, Ellis did not penetrate, and where no ethnologist, unless you will graciously extend the term to me, has ever cautiously worked.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta

I therefore proposed to run south and to revisit my old quarters, 'F.Po' and the Oil Rivers, in the B. and A. s.s.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir