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Many who were killed believed that their good relationships with their non-Igbo friends would protect them. [32] In Lagos, the Igbos recounted one of their greatest discomforts was being taunted by Yoruba individuals, who urged them to leave Lagos and return to Igboland. [33] It was during this period that the Igbo word Okoro became derogatory.
The Yoruba people are said to be one of the three largest ethnic groups in Nigeria, alongside the Igbo and the Hausa-Fulani peoples. They are concentrated in the southwestern section of Nigeria, much smaller and scattered groups of Yoruba people live in Benin and northern Togo and they are numbered to be more than 20 million at the turn of the ...
Nigeria is a very ethnically diverse country with 371 ethnic groups, the largest of which are the Hausa, Yoruba and the Igbo. [1] Nigeria has one official language which is English, as a result of the British colonial rule over the nation.
Female figure from Oke-Onigbin, Shango shrine. The Ìgbómìnà are renowned merchants well known for long distance trading which account for their wide spread across Yoruba land, they engage in other traditional occupation such as agriculture and hunting, as well as their woodcarving, leather art, and the famous Elewe masquerade.
The Kano riot of 1953 refers to the riot, which broke out in the ancient city of Kano, [1] located in Northern Nigeria, in May 1953.The nature of the riot was clashes between Northerners, mainly the Hausa and Fulani, who were opposed to Nigeria's Independence and Southerners, made up of mainly the Yorubas and the Igbos who supported immediate independence for Nigeria.
Igala is situated between the apex of the Niger River and Benue River, with the capital, Idah, on the Niger River. Being located by the two main bodies of water in Nigeria brought an abundance of cultural influence from various communities such as Igbo, Yoruba, Edo, and Jukun. The Igala economy grew from trading, but traditionally, the Igala ...
In contrast to the Oku people, the Creoles or Krio are Christian and are a mixture of various ethnic groups including African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and Liberated Africans of Igbo, Fanti, Aja, Nupe, Bakongo, and Yoruba descent in addition to other African ethnic groups and European ancestry.
His Yoruba sources included people from Ọta, Ẹgba, Okun, Ijẹbu, Ifẹ, Ondo, Itsẹkiri, and more, while his Igbo sources were from areas such as Isuama, Ishielu, Agbaja, Aro, and Mbofia. The Igbo respondents consistently used the term Onyọcha for White Man. In contrast, all the Yoruba participants stated their term was Òyìnbó. [8]