Politics of Nigeria

West Africa is a poor, helpless region who is living in poverty. West Africa has poor education for those who can afford schooling. Slavery still continues today, as hundreds of people used as hard labor. The topography is beautiful, covering 85% of West Africa with deserts, semi-deserts, steppe, grasslands, forests, and rain forests. The government is a federal republic, and the states in the region is far away from each other and the religion revolves around the everyday lifestyle. Culture is…

Chinua Achebe once said, “It’s not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What’s more difficult is to identify with someone you don’t see, who’s very far away, who’s a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that, then literature is really performing wonders.” This is what Achebe succeeded in doing when he wrote Things Fall Apart, a historical fiction novel that explores Nigerian culture during the Age of…

New Dawn Baptist Church is a daughter church of New Estate Baptist Church, Surulere, Lagos. In 1983, New Estate Baptist Church implemented a cell church system under the leadership of the then pastor, Dr. Sola Aworinde. Several cells were created in different parts of the city of Lagos. Each of them became fellowship centers meeting primarily on Sunday evenings. They were called Home Fellowships. In due time, the Church decided on a policy of planting new churches using the Home Cells as the…

language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts”. I’m proud to be a part of such an amazing culture, but before I talk about it, I want to give credit to the country where this culture originated. I come from a country in Africa called Nigeria. Nigeria is the most populated country in West Africa including the whole Africa itself. Every year, the country population keeps expanding in numbers. According to Aneki, in the year 2013, its numbers alone were…

Many people characterize their home as safe, secure, or at least comforting. My home was a bit … different. After leaving their home in Nigeria, my parents had to jump from home to home constantly moving me and my family until they could learn how to properly settle in America. My parents were very caring and helpful and kept trying to move us to places where we would have a chance at success. When we finally settled their seemed to only be one logical thing to do... help other immigrants…

story. When she finally decides to move back to Nigeria she reminisces with her ex about when she first immigrated and she wrote him, "It's wonderful, but it's not heaven"; she reflects more on this by saying, "I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but…

Invasion of Colonialism in Things Fall Apart Nigerian author Chinua Achebe wrote the novel Things Fall Apart in 1958. It was published by William Heinemann limited under the genre of historical literature. The main theme of the novel explores the transformation of the life of the Igbo people as colonialism enters their world in the 19th century. It is used in schools and college to educate students as a historical literature text related to colonialism and is also used as a source of reference…

Okonkwo & Nwoye Nwoye is Okonkwo’s oldest son and causes grief to Okonkwo because he is more similar to his grandfather than him. While trying to appease his father, and live up to the life that he has envisioned for him, Nwoye falls prey to many beatings from Okonkwo. The fact that his own son was so much like the father he hated weighed heavily on him on he thought the beatings would correct it. Nwoye enjoyed the stories of his mother more so than the war stories from his father. Because he…

Nuer Lives Nuer Journeys is an ethnography about African Nuer who have migrated to Minnesota. The author of the book is the anthropologist Dr. Jon D. Holtzman. The Nuer are an African people, specifically from Sudan (Holtzman 2008: 2). The Nuer base their way of life around growing crops and raising livestock. Additionally, they belong to the Nilo-Saharan cultural/linguistic group and are a sizable ethnic group in southern Sudan. The Nuer became refugees during the second civil war in Sudan, a…

Transforms Growing up with the cultures and places changing constantly it is difficult not to be influenced. In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe a boy name Nwoye was the one being influenced and changed due to the cultural collisions in Nigeria at this time. More specifically he was influenced by family,loss, and religion in which shaped who he was as a man and a individual finding his path. In this essay using textual evidence It will be highlighting how the new indigenous people…