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Elesin Oba, The King's Horseman is a 2022 Yoruba-language Nigerian historical drama film directed by Biyi Bandele and distributed by Netflix, based on Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman, a stage play he wrote while in Cambridge, where he was a fellow student at Churchill College during his political exile from Nigeria, [1] and it is based on a real incident that took place in ...
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having their own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic , Khoisan , Niger-Congo , and Nilo-Saharan populations.
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.
The Woman King is a 2022 American quasi-historical action-adventure film about the Agojie, the all-female warrior unit that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th to 19th centuries.
Population Language group n A B E1a E1b1a E1b1b E2 J R1b T Reference Alur: Nilo-Saharan: 9 22 0 0 11 0 67 0 0 0 Wood 2005 [1]: Amhara () : Semitic: 48 14.6 2.1 0 45.8 0 33.3
2 A Tribe Called Judah: 2023 ₦1,404,187,806 Funke Ayotunde Akindele Network Funke Akindele, Adeoluwa Owu: 3 Battle on Buka Street: 2022 [1] ₦668,423,056 Funke Ayotunde Akindele Network / FilmOne Studios Funke Akindele, Tobi Makinde: 4 Omo Ghetto: The Saga: 2020 [2] ₦636,129,120 SceneOne Productions Funke Akindele, JJC Skillz: 5 Alakada ...
Trybe TV is a 24 hours Nollywood movie channel owned by CMA Group. On 25 November 2015, Trybe TV was launched as a movie channel with Nollywood, Ghollywood and Yoruba speaking movies interposed with original lifestyle programming available in Nigeria on DSTV and GOtv.
In his work, Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains c.1863, the English ethnologist Richard F. Burton reports of a Yoruba account in 1861, noting that the name "Yoruba" derives from Ori Obba, i.e. -The Head King. [44] It was applied ex-situ originally in reference to the Yoruba sociolinguistic group as a whole.