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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Oil Rivers

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 Mary Henrietta Kingsley

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 Mary Henrietta Kingsley

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton

They were formerly regarded as within the Oil Rivers district, sometimes spoken of as the Oil Coast.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various

Thereupon Consul Hewitt, in accordance with instructions from London, established British supremacy at the Oil Rivers, Old and New Calabar, and several other points adjoining the Niger delta as far west as Lagos.

From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by John Holland Rose

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