Culture of Nigeria

goals. I was born in Lagos, Nigeria into a family of 3 children and parents who are still married. I have two elder siblings, a boy and a girl and I am the last child. Nigeria is one…

Nigeria is in West Africa, along the eastern coast of the Gulf of Guinea and just north of the equator. On the west of Nigeria is Benin, on the north is Niger and Chad, and on the east is Cameroon. Nigeria covers an area of 356,669 square miles (923,768 square kilometers), or about twice the size of California. There are more than 250 ethnic tribes in Nigeria. The three most largest ethnic groups are Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo (pronounced ee-bo). Some other smaller groups include Fulani, Ijaw,…

Grace Alele Williams was born December sixteenth in the year nine-teen thirty-two. She grew up in a town named Warri, Delta State in the country of Nigeria. She has no known siblings and her parents are unheard of as well. She was married to the late Professor Babatunde Williams with whom she had five beautiful children that blessed her with nine beautiful grandchildren later on in life. Williams attended government school in her home town of Warri before moving on to attend Queens college,…

Ever since UNICEF initiated their activities in Africa, in general, and in Nigeria in particular, the organization has met with numerous difficulties and rather struggle to deliver their services to the community in the righteous way. Nigerian community has an extensive distrust with Western culture, the people are compelled to have negative expectations toward Western organizations, especially ones that work through the government such as UNICEF. (Obadare, 2005) The reason behind this…

a different, much more tragic and true story appears. Here enters Chinua Achebe, a writer from Nigeria. In his novel, Things Fall Apart, a different world view is shown, and the loss of a culture and lives becomes apparent. In an argument against the constant bias…

I.The Ethnic Cleavage of the Muslim And Christian Divide in Nigeria In Nigeria, the cleavage of ethnic identity has been primarily based on the religious affiliations of various groups in the north and south of the country. The religious background of various ethnic identities in Nigeria have been historically structured by the Christian and Muslim religions. In the case of the north, the Hausa and Fulani peoples are a primarily cattle farming society that remains committed to ancient nomadic…

Bittersweet Prejudice In the essay “The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Adichie, she describes her experiences with stereotypes, or “single stories”, she has heard about other cultures and her own that have created well-meaning but uneducated societies all across the world. With these experiences, she gives the point that there shouldn’t be a single story to anyone because they underestimate the victims of it and overlook their true stories of who they are. She proves this point by using…

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a novel, which is a cultural opprobrium of Nigeria and America. This novel points out the materialistic desires of Nigeria—how women want to marry rich, and the wealthy are supposed to be automatically respected. As well as the racism, racial hierarchy, and real struggles with American freedom that Ifemelu faces when she comes to the “Land of The Free.” These cultural criticisms support our American exceptionalist views; therefore, considering the other…

Acknowledged as one of the foremost living playwrights of the world, Wole Soyinka is the first African Nobel laureate who was awarded the covetous Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. As a playwright, Wole Soyinka has basically operated within two categories – the tragic and the satiric.Although the dramatic form itself and the Western generic categories are Western import, Soyinka has injected fresh energies into every genre by the incorporation of traditional Yoruba elements. Soyinka’s dramas…

In 1958, just two years before Nigeria became independent, Chinua Achebe published a narrative called Things Fall Apart. This novel describes the takeover of the Igbo society in Nigeria by the British. Living in this civilization, the people were brought up to value certain traditions and culture that have been around for thousands of years. Unfortunately, due to the invasion of the European people, these rituals and customs of the Igbo community began to diminish. The British were pressuring…