History of Nigeria

Museum and Artifact Repatriation Nigeria, the Giant of Africa, earned its title in terms of its geographic size, population size and economic growth. It is also popular for producing a vast majority of West-African art. According to Shyllon (1998), of all the countries south of the Sahara, Nigeria dominates in the production of sculptured antiquities as it possesses nine-tenths of sculptures aged at greater than a century. The ancient city of Benin in Southern Nigeria has been revered as a…

The introduction of a foreign concept into an area with a deep-rooted history has a tendency to create tumultuous and longstanding problems. For instance, when you take a complex religion such as Christianity and mix it into an inherently different culture such as that of the Igbo, you end up with conflict and turmoil. The traditional Igbo religion, or Odinani, was historically a large part of igbo society—the traditions of the religion were integrated and intertwined in the daily lives of the…

While events in these three books echo the history of their respective countries, their main characters do as well. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Buendía family represents different parts of Colombia as the family cycles through life and death. All members of the Buendía family are solitary in some way, which represents the isolated of Latin America. According to Laura Turgeon in World Literature and its Times, their seclusion is “symbolic of . . . their culture, their continent . . .…

The exploration of oil in Nigeria began on June 5 1956 after Shell-BP struck ‘black gold’ during a drilling expedition in Oloibiri, Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta region. Over the years, the Nigerian economy has become highly dependent on the exportation of oil as its main source of foreign exchange. Between 1972 and 2013, oil rents were averaged to account for 25 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (World Development Indicators). Fuel exports as a percentage of Nigeria’s…

Africa, the second most populous continent in the world with about one billion people, and over one thousand languages spoken. This level of cultural splendor and beauty can only found in Africa. The home to the world’s largest land animals, the world’s tallest animal, the fastest land animal, the world’s largest reptile, the world’s largest primate. Home to the Pharaonic civilization which is one of the world’s oldest and longest-lasting civilizations. Housing over 30% of the earth’s remaining…

2.Countries in the Sahel region face various challenges. Among these challenges frequent climate change, desertification, deforestation, frequent food crises, extreme poverty, rapid population growth are the main ones. Basides to the natural problem of the region some other problems such as ethnic centrism, fragile governance, corruption, unresolved internal tensions, violent extremism and radicalization, illegal trafficking and terrorist-linked security threats affects the peace and security of…

they discuss the implications of separating their people apart physically and mentally due to colonization. In the book Things Fall Apart, the author, Chinua Achebe reveals the cultural consequences of colonization during the British occupation in Nigeria, by imposing their religion to the Igbo people, eventually affects their cultural identity. Through the effective use of diction and figurative language the reader is clearly presented on how colonization causes psychological effects for…

Who Am I? The history of colonialism evidently shows the separation between the indigenous society of Africa versus the highly developed society of Europe. European colonists considered themselves to be more superior than their colored brethren and found that it was their job to help their primitive brothers to develop a better way of life—to follow Christianity. Along this line of separation includes the stark differences in culture and traditional values that each of these separate worlds…

Similar to Gregor Samsa in Franz Kafka’s novel The Metamorphosis, Furo Wariboko awoke one morning to find that in his sleep he had completely transformed into an oyibo (a white person). In an interview, Igoni explains that "The Metamorphosis is about a young man in Prague who wakes up one morning to discover that he is a giant bug, and then he spends his time trying to be loved by his parents, to win his parents love, and trying to fulfill his responsibilities.” Furo Wariboko went from being a…

B.Ananda Rao M.A,M.Phil,(Ph.D) Asst.Prof, of English Sri Vasavi Engg College, Tadepalligudem. “A study of tradition and culture in the selected plays of Wole Soyinka and Girish karnad”. INTRODUCTION Wole Soyinka is the first African writer to win the Nobel…