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The history of Nigeria can be traced to the earliest inhabitants whose remains date from at least 13,000 BC through early civilizations such as the Nok culture which began around 1500 BC. Numerous ancient African civilizations settled in the region that is known today as Nigeria, such as the Kingdom of Nri, [1] the Benin Empire, [2] and the Oyo ...
The culture of Nigeria is shaped by Nigeria 's multiple ethnic groups. [1] [2] The country has 527 languages, [3] [4] seven of which are extinct. [5] [6] [7] Nigeria also has over 1,150 dialects and ethnic groups. The three largest ethnic groups are the Hausas that are predominantly in the north, the Yorubas who predominate in the southwest ...
Igboland ( Standard Igbo: Àlà Ị̀gbò ), [4] [5] also known as Southeastern Nigeria (but extends into South-Southern Nigeria ), is the indigenous homeland of the Igbo people. [6] [7] It is a cultural and common linguistic region in southern Nigeria. Geographically, it is divided into two sections by the lower Niger River: an eastern (the ...
Traditional faiths ( Dinka religion, Kalenjin folklore etc), Christianity , Islam. The Nilotic peoples are people indigenous to the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages. They inhabit South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, the eastern border area of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania. [ 1]
Zulu people ( / ˈzuːluː /; Zulu: amaZulu) are a native people of Southern Africa of the Nguni. The Zulu people are the largest ethnic group and nation in South Africa, with an estimated 14.39 million people, in total of which 13.78 million people live in South Africa, mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. [ 3][ 4] They originated from ...
The collapse undermined Songhai's hegemony over the Hausa states and abruptly altered the course of the regional history of the tzu people. Kanem-Bornu reached its apogee under mai Idris Aluma (ca. 1569–1600) during whose reign Kanem was reconquered. The destruction of Songhai left Borno uncontested and until the 18th century, Borno dominated ...
The Ijaw people, otherwise known as the Ijo people, [ 2] are an ethnic group found in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, with significant population clusters [ 3] in Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers. [ 4] They also occupy Edo, Ondo, [ 5] and small parts of Akwa Ibom. [ 6] Many are found as migrant fishermen in camps as far west as Sierra Leone and as far ...
1914 map of Southern and Northern Nigeria by John Bartholomew & Co. of Edinburgh. Southern Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria formed in 1900 from the union of the Niger Coast Protectorate with territories chartered by the Royal Niger Company below Lokoja on the Niger River. [1]