Side by side
Nigeria and Chad compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
1 October 1960 — The Federation of Nigeria becomes independent of Britain
- Shared indicators
- 41
- Domains
- 9
- Crossed events
- 2
- Data through
- 2026-08-10
The figures, side by side
Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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Entangled histories
2 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- c. 9th century
Rise of the Kanem empire
Around Lake Chad the empire of Kanem emerged under the Sayfawa dynasty, growing wealthy as the southern terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and gradually adopting Islam.
Formation · from the Nigeria chronicle · The great precolonial kingdoms: Kanem-Bornu, Hausa, Oyo and Benin · The Bornu Empire, Nigeria (country overview and history)
- c. 1400
Shift from Kanem to Bornu
After conflict with the Bulala forced the dynasty to abandon its eastern heartland, the state re-centred west of Lake Chad at Bornu, beginning the era of the Bornu Empire.
Politics & Power · from the Nigeria chronicle · The great precolonial kingdoms: Kanem-Bornu, Hausa, Oyo and Benin · The Bornu Empire, Nigeria (country overview and history)