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The Ijaw culture of the South has been influenced greatly by its location on the coast and the interaction with foreigners that it necessitated. Its members amassed great wealth while serving as middlemen , and the preponderance of English names among them today is a testament to the trade names adopted by their ancestors at this time.
Nigerian culture was profoundly affected by the British colonial rule. [29] Such as British colonial authority's denouncement and attacks upon polygamy, trial by ordeal, and certain types of sacrifices. [29] At the same time, British colonial authorities maintained and promoted traditional Nigerian culture that strengthened colonial ...
Oyo, Oyo State, is the seat of the line of the rulers of Oyo.Their territory, a constituent rump state, is located in what is now Nigeria.Since the 1900 political absorption into Southern Nigeria of the kingdom that it once served as a metropolitan center, the traditional monarchy has been either a tool of British indirect rule or a legally recognised traditional polity within the republic of ...
Name Image Location Criteria Year Description; Sukur Cultural Landscape: Adamawa. Cultural (iii) (v) (vi) 1999 The Sukur Cultural Landscape, with the Palace of the Hidi (Chief) on a hill dominating the villages below, the terraced fields and their sacred symbols, and the extensive remains of a former flourishing iron industry, is a remarkably intact physical expression of a society and its ...
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Nigerian Books of Record (NBR) is a reference / Official Book of Record of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for documenting good records held by Nigerians. It is a collection of human achievements categorized into education, literature, agriculture, medical science, business, sports, nature, adventure, radio and cinema etc. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The center is a restaurant, serving Nigerian cuisine, bookstore and cultural venue, [4] hosting exhibitions of Nigerian art, [5] theater, [6] and book readings as well as language classes in the three main Nigerian languages, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. [1] Annual events at Terra Kulture includes an art auction [7] and the Taruwa festival of ...