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Nigerians are the originators of "cool"?

I was checking out Jamel Shabazz’s “Back in the Day” photography book and the introduction section talked about the origin of “cool”:
What is cool? Robert Farris Thompson writes in his 1983 book Flash Of The Spirit that cool originated in Nigeria in the first half of the 15th century. Ewure was the name given to [...]