NIGERIA The purpose of this essay is to describe Nigeria. Officially it is a federal constitutional republic‚ located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west‚ Chad and Cameroon in the east‚ and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. Its three largest and most influential ethnic groups are the Hausa‚ Igbo and Yoruba. The name Nigeria was taken from the Niger River running through the country. This
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River. It is lined to the east by the Nigeria northwest by Burkina Faso and west by Togo. Benin’s official capital is Porto Novo. Cotonou is not only Benin’s largest city but it’s also its largest chief port and its de facto administrative capital. The official language is French but other languages spoken are Fon‚ Ge‚ Bariba Yuruba and Deni. Benin was once a French settlement until August 1‚ 1960 when they won their dependence. Before Benin’s colonial rule‚ a part of the region that is currently
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particular way? ! Things Fall Apart by the Nigerian author‚ Chinua Achebe‚ perfectly illustrates the collapse of the Igbo society and people during the british colonization of Nigeria in the early twentieth century. The author’s motif‚ the proper telling of the confound and inaccurate portrayal of the africans during the racist colonial era‚ was perfectly executed‚ presenting idyllic and faithful elements of the Igbo culture and customs. As a Nigerian writer himself‚ Achebe creates stereotypical characters
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Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story I’m a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call "the danger of the single story." I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. My mother says that I started reading at the age of two‚ although I think four is probably close to the truth. So I was an early reader‚ and what I read were British and American children’s books. I was also an early writer‚ and when I began to write‚ at about the age
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activist‚ and political activist. Fela was the pioneer of Afrobeat‚ a musical genre solely associated with Nigerian music. He was a prolific songwriter with over 70 albums to his name. Fela was born October 15‚ 1938‚ in Abeokuta‚ Nigeria and died August 2‚ 1997‚ in Lagos‚ Nigeria. In 1958‚ Fela was sent to London by his father to study medicine‚ but he decided to study music at the Trinity College of Music‚ London. While he was there‚ Fela formed the band Koola Lobitos who played a fusion of American
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land could care less of what the natives think. This creates an imbalance in favor which often‚ in human history‚ leads to violent bloodshed. “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe is set in the 1890s and portrays the clash between Nigeria’s white colonial government and the traditional culture of the indigenous Igbo people. Through out my readings so far I have found that this novel crushes the stereotypical European portraits of native Africans. In the bigger picture‚ these interactions between
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religion. European colonisers also banned certain traditional practices. In the case of the Yoruba people in Nigeria‚ the practices of polygamy and burying the dead within the home were banned. These practices were important to the Yoruba society and colonisation has negatively impacted the richness of Yoruba culture. It is arguable that a society should be left to develop on its own without colonial influence. If a group of people that only has simple technology is suddenly exposed to powerful weapons
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and is referred to as "the ugly sister".Olanna is one of three narrators in ’Half of a Yellow Sun’. She is an Igbo sociology teacher. She comes from a wealthy upper-class family and is well educated‚ which wasn’t very common for women in 1960s Nigeria. Olanna lives with her boyfriend Odenigbo. She has a twin sister‚ Kainene‚ who has a very different personality to Olanna’s. Olanna is a beautiful woman‚ unlike her ugly twin sister. Despite her mother’s beliefs‚ Kainene‚ her twin sister‚ is a
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Civil Peace by Chinua Achebe: Summary The well-known Nigerian author Chinua Achebe’s short story ’Civil Peace’ is a realistic story which presents the condition immediately after the Civil War. The story is about a Biafran civil war and its effect on the lives of ordinary Nigerian people. Chinua Achebe It is an interesting and touching comment on quick and easy recovery from hardship after the war. Most people are damaged by the aftereffects of the war‚ but Jonathan Iwegbu thinks himself very lucky
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three National Newspapers in Nigeria – This Day‚ Vanguard and Champion Newspapers‚ and coded their reportage of women in politics in terms of regularity‚ depth‚ placement‚ etc. using simple percentage/frequency tables to answer the given research questions and Chi-square contingency analysis‚ the study found that the media do not fully pay attention to the contribution of women in the Nigerian political process. We also found that women are grossly under-reported in Nigeria press‚ as opposed to their
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