Nigeria Essay

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…

Setting: In the 1950’s, in the years preceding the independence of the country then-known as Colonial and Protectorate of Nigeria, a colony of the British Empire, a battle between the cultures of the local past and the foreign future had been fought for many years now. The predominantly Christian south of the country, mixed with the African culture that survived the invasion of the British, and the own-made traditions of each tribe, made sure that the battle would be a long one. As seen in the…

Cameroon is a country between Nigeria, Chad and the Central African Republic. The Cameroons colonial name comes from the cameros (prawns) that the 15th Century explores found in the Wouri River. South Cameroon supplied the Atlantic slave and commodity trades. North Cameroon people were Muslim and the economy of the Fulani and Hausa south of the Sahara. Between 1884 and 1916 Germany united the south and the north into a colony. The French ruled the east from the capital, Yaoundé. The British had…

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 impact. Significant cities that were part of the Nok culture like Abuja and Yoruba. Abuja is the capital of Nigeria and was the center of ancient Nok. Another city that had a major part…

Returning back to the Igbo-Hausa case in Nigeria, the effects of the British colonial rule in the escalation of ethnic conflict is crystal-clear if the perspective of Horowitz is applied to the case. The British colonial rule had established there an artificial political entity composing of distinct ethnic groups, in 1914, by juxtaposing them into a new country that they have named Nigeria. There were three major ethnic groups which were settled in different parts of the new country. As Horowitz…

Although some aspects of their vigilance vary, they are especially linked to periods of local transition associated with elections. Electoral politics in Nigeria are rife with corruption. Youth associations' vigilantism consists of screening politicians before supporting them to stand for elected office. They also restrict the culture of impunity, check accountability and strive for political improvement through…

thinking “Wow this is some really good music I wonder what he is saying!? Obviously, he is speaking English but he was also speaking something else and it is really beautiful! But why is he speaking English?” and so I began my research on Nigeria where I learned that Nigeria was colonize by the British, Thus why Nigerians speak…

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…

the turn of the twentieth century. The book was first published in 1958 and reprinted in 1962 (Achebe), which became the first novel in the African writer’s series. This book was written by a Nigerian and it set the village of Umuofia in eastern Nigeria. Achebe portrays a remarkable movement in Africa history as the man who invented African literature to fight against the dissimulation of colonial rule. With the sympathy and dignity, which Achebe showed by focusing on the complexity and…

capital of Borno State in the country of Nigeria located in a west part of Africa. The Islamic terror group over the past years has being operating around the Nigeria and Niger boarder; also between Nigerian and Cameroon boarder. Nigerian has a population of about 170 million people and it is a multi-ethnic country with different religious groups. The country had witnessed various forms of violent for many decades; however, Boko Haram activities in Northern Nigeria in recent times have become…