Place · river
Benue River
The Benue is the main tributary of the Niger, about 1,400 kilometres long, rising in northern Cameroon and joining the Niger at Lokoja in Nigeria. Navigable for much of its course in the rainy season, it was a corridor for trade and migration, and the Jukun kingdom of Kwararafa, the Igala and the emirates of Adamawa and Muri all lay along it. British traders and the Royal Niger Company used it to reach the interior in the 19th century.
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