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Marriage within the Hausa-Fulani communities is traditionally ... The Efik and Ibibio tribes in southern Nigeria, ...
(The author spent two months this summer in Nigeria with Operation Crossroads Africa. He worked on the costruction of an open-air market in Ojo Village, twenty miles northwest of the capital of Lagos.
IN SHORT: The Nigerian government, politicians and religious groups have condemned the killing of 16 Hausa hunters in Edo state. But we found no evidence to support claims that a group of Hausas ...
Because the president’s naked embrace of Yorubacentricism after a lifetime of railing with his kinsmen against Hausa-Fulani hegemony ... the Yoruba had conquered Nigeria, wouldn’t they have ...
There is this clichéd complaint among the educated class in Nigeria that there “is no reading culture.” This is nonsense even in English, but there is no way you can talk about a “lack of reading ...
The three major ethnic groups- Hausa in the North ... power among various ethnic groups has led to a culture of mistrust and hostility. The Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970, which was mainly ...
Nigeria is descending deeper into the quagmire ... As a result, they killed Hausa leaders and seized control of the Hausa tribe in their territory. Similarly, a greedy Yoruba man named Afonja ...
Each had a unique culture and traditions ... "Central Sudan," "Niger Sudan," and "Hausa Territories." Lord Frederic Lugard used the term "Nigeria" when he fused the "Southern Nigeria Protectorate ...
Listeners of the popular Voice Of America (VOA) Hausa radio service in Northern Nigeria and other neighbouring countries have turned to other stations for their news updates after the radio ...