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Nigeria has one official language which is English, as a result of the British colonial rule over the nation. Nevertheless, it is not spoken as a first language in the entire country because other languages have been around for over a thousand years making them the major languages in terms of numbers of native speakers.
Of this land area, 106,016 km 2 (74.6%) lies within Nigeria, 18.9% in Benin, and the remaining 6.5% is in Togo. Prior to European colonization , a portion of this area was known as Yoruba country . The geo-cultural space contains an estimated 55 million people, the majority of this population being ethnic Yoruba .
In Nigeria today, Igboland is roughly made up of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, Northern Delta and Rivers states. [12] More than 30 million people inhabit Igboland and with a population density ranging from 140 to 390 inhabitants per square kilometre (350 to 1,000/sq mi) [ 13 ] it could be the most densely populated area in Africa after the ...
Fufu is so emblematic of Nigeria that it figures in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, for example. [77] Nigeria is known for its many traditional dishes. Each tribe has different dishes that are unique to their culture. Yoruba people, for example, have different dishes like Amala, Ogbono, Moin Moin, Ofada Rice, and Efo Riro. [78]
Map of the old world in 400 BC showing the Nok culture Akin to the peoples of the Chad Basin and Kintampo culture , the people of the Nok culture employed a mixed cropping method of cultivating cowpeas and pearl millet as well as utilized oleaginous fruits. [ 30 ]
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 16:28, 23 March 2013: 954 × 734 (548 KB): Hel-hama: improvements to river boundaries; tribal name changed to modern version of name
Map showing the average distribution and concentration of the haplogroup E1b1a , the most common Sub-Saharan African-associated clade. Yoruba people belong largely to the E1b1a1 subclade of the E-M2 haplogroup along with the Ewe, Ga, and Bamileke peoples of West Africa and Cameroon. Genetic studies have also found evidence of some archaic West ...
Most of the tribes in the north central of Nigeria trace their origin to the Jukun people and are related in one way or the other to the Jukuns. [ citation needed ] Until the coming of both Christianity and Islam , the Jukun people were followers of their own traditional religions.