We all grow up with an identity shaped by history – where we were born, how our parents and grandparents lived, what happened in our country, all these things shape us.

Nigeria is a country where many communities and identities are held within one nation. And the history of that nation is the source of it’s current identity. So we’ve brought together an eminent Nigerian historian and intellectual, Dr Toyin Falola, and Fu’ad Lawal the founder of archivi.ng which is a project to preserve modern history through an online newspaper archive, to discuss how history is used to shape our identities.