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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 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.
Akinwunmi Isola (1939-2018), Nigerian playwright, novelist, actor, dramatist, culture activist and scholar; Bakare Gbadamosi (b. 1930), Yoruba poet, anthropologist and short story writer from Nigeria; Daniel O. Fagunwa (1903-1963), Nigerian Yoruba author who pioneered the Yoruba language novel; Duro Ladipo (1926-1978), Yoruba dramatist; Isaac ...
The Yoruba people believe that people live out the meanings of their names. As such, Yoruba people put considerable effort into naming a baby. Their philosophy of naming is conveyed in a common adage, ile ni a n wo, ki a to so omo l'oruko ("one pays attention to the family before naming a child"): one must consider the tradition and history of ...
The Oku people or the Aku Marabout or Aku Mohammedans are an ethnic group in Sierra Leone and the Gambia, primarily the descendants of marabout, liberated Yoruba people who were released from slave ships and resettled in Sierra Leone as Liberated Africans or came as settlers in the mid-19th century.
The vast majority of the Yoruba population is today within the country of Nigeria, where they make up 20.7% of the country's population according to Ethnologue estimations, [27] [28] making them one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa. Most Yoruba people speak the Yoruba language, which is the Niger-Congo language with the largest number of ...
The following are the highest-grossing Nigerian films of all time in Nigerian cinemas. The 2024 film Everybody Loves Jenifa currently leads the chart, with ₦1,879,000,000 grossed over a few months. Revenues from special screenings, DVD sales, online streaming, and theatrical screenings outside English-speaking West Africa are excluded from ...
The Yoruba Names Project is set up to help document the Yoruba language first through all the names borne by its people, and later through an online dictionary.. It is part of a larger effort to help document the African cultural experience on the internet by making them easy to write and access via information technology.