Culture of Nigeria

The Ibo people of Nigeria have gone untouched from the outside world for hundreds of years. In the novel Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, it is depicted how it would be the arrival of Europeans that would forever alter the Ibo culture and Nigeria as a whole. Europeans were able to influence many aspects of Igbo society. It is through religion, government, and education that the Europeans were able to have a lasting impact on Nigerian culture. Religion of the Ibo people was very much…

An old ancient culture located in the western part of Africa had paved the way of new founding of art. Around 1000 B.C., this society had flourished and became highly advanced in their culture. Nok was discovered in the central part of what is now known as Nigeria. Around that time, Nok has covered about 50% of Nigeria. Nok was known to be one of the oldest place in Africa that has changed the impact of sculpture art. The cities that were part of the Nok society was the reason of that artistic…

burned skin and clothing, and more. Tragically, this horrific scene is not an uncommon one in Nigeria these days. When traumatic attacks such as bombings occur, especially in northern Nigeria, two words come to everyone’s minds: Boko Haram. Boko Haram is an extremely violent Islamist terrorist group who hopes to create a wholly Islamic government and has been trying to do so by perpetrating attacks in Nigeria for the past twelve years. One factor that led Boko Haram to take such violent…

Once a religious commune and now a violent terrorist organization, Boko Haram is impacting the country and surrounding countries of Nigeria. Their activity includes killing civilians, targeting government buildings, and even sending children in as suicide bombers to bomb buildings such as mosques. The main goal is for the group to turn the country of Nigeria into a true Islamic state. They believe that Islam should be the main religion and the country should move away from western and secular…

that explores Nigerian culture during the Age of Imperialization. This book was one of the first of its kind to tell the story of European colonization from the perspective of the Africans. It’s a classic that’s been translated into over 50 different languages, and has had a huge impact on how the modern world views the colonization of Africa. The novel focuses on the lives of Okonkwo and his family, and tells the story of how Ibo culture comes to clash with European culture. Things Fall Apart…

Things fall apart expressed his rejection for the pessimistic point of view he had already accepted before the independence of Nigeria. In his book, he demonstrated comeliness and the unequaled characteristics of African culture. The colonization of Africa really made the locals adopt the western culture, neglecting their own. He urged Africans to embrace and value their culture as the whites were. “Things fall apart has been translated into more than fifty languages in several countries, sold…

at the conception of their works, both talk in depth on the effects that the colonialists and missionaries had on Nigeria, and the complementary gender roles that were ingrained in Nigerian Ibo culture. Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” was greatly influenced by his upbringing and the unique position that he found himself in during the writing process. Achebe was born in Nigeria 1930 to a protestant missionary and was…

crying and a feminine voice saying donate today, that is the image that pops into my head when I think of Africa but that is not what Africa means to me. Perhaps it is because I come from Haiti, the first black nation to be free and my pride in my culture but my view of Africa originally was one of pride. Then when I came to America I was constantly seeing images of starving children on the Television and a number of different websites, hearing tales of broken…

Nigeria, a country with over 140 million people is located in West Africa. Nigeria has over 270 ethnic groups, each group has its custom, tradition and dialect. Although diverse in their way of live, Nigerians are unified by the language of death. For the sake of understanding, there are three major ethnic groups in Nigeria, they are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. Although rural-urban migration has caused us to live together, each ethnic group has its designated primary location. Although death…

Ijeoma Ebirim Dr. Milstein HLTH 200 MWF 9:00am What Has My Culture Taught Me About Sex And Sexuality? Nigeria, which popularly is identified as the giant of Africa, was a colonized nation. British Colonialists, who cared little about our various cultural differences and homogeneity, created the boundaries. Thus, several groups of people from diverse works of life were pooled together to form Nigeria. The largest population of people are the Hausas in the north, The Yorubas in the west, and the…