• Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, later called External Affairs, Nigerian foreign policy has been characterised by a focus on Africa as a regional...
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    Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the sixth in the world. It is also one of the most densely populated countries in Africa, with approximately...
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    Sabrina (musician) (category Use Nigerian English from July 2022)
    Luxembourg. The song reached number eleven on the hit charts on Boomplay in Nigeria, Gambia, and Kenya. Wamba Kuegou Sabrina Ruth was born on 6 November 2001...
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    Uchendu Eugene (November 24, 2014). "Repositioning culture for development: women and development in a Nigerian rural community". Community, Work & Family. 18...
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    and by the time he was in college, he had been exposed to different Nigerian cultures and spoke three languages. Azikiwe was well travelled. He moved to...
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    Lagos (redirect from Lagos, Nigeria)
    also US: /ˈlɑːɡoʊs/ LAH-gohss; Yoruba: Èkó), or Lagos City, is a city in Nigeria. With an estimated population of 21 million in 2015, it claimed to be the...
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    Colonial Nigeria was ruled by the British Empire from the mid-nineteenth century until 1 October 1960 when Nigeria achieved independence. Britain annexed...
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    Fula people (category Ethnic groups in Nigeria)
    their culture. The Fula are almost completely Muslims. Many West African leaders are of Fulani descent, including the former President of Nigeria, Muhammadu...
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    Igbo people (category Ethnic groups in Nigeria)
    Ebo, Eboe, Eboans, Heebo; natively Ṇ́dị́ Ìgbò) are an ethnic group in Nigeria. They are primarily found in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States...
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    Chad (redirect from Culture of Chad)
    the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon to the southwest, Nigeria to the southwest (at Lake Chad), and Niger to the west. Chad has a population...
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    Richard Mofe-Damijo (category Political office-holders in Nigeria)
    as RMD, is a veteran Nigerian actor, writer, producer, lawyer, and former journalist. He was also a former Commissioner for Culture and Tourism in Delta...
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    migration from the Central Sahara to Nigeria, Nok people settled in the region of Nok in 1500 BCE, and Nok culture continued to persist until 1 BCE. Later...
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    of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic...
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    Talking drum (category Culture of Nigeria)
    Ethiopiques, numéro 31, révue socialiste de culture négro-Africaine, 3e trimestre 1982 "The Talking Drum in Nigerian Pop Music -- Fuji Music: MUSC&105 1778...
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    Jos (redirect from Jos, Nigeria)
    /ˈdʒoʊs/ is a city in the North-Central region of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The city has a population of about 900,000 residents based on the 2006...
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  • No Longer at Ease (category Novels set in Nigeria)
    education in Britain and then a job in the Nigerian colonial civil service, but is conflicted between his African culture and Western lifestyle and ends up taking...
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    and Culture (the first took place in Dakar, 1966, the second in Algiers in July 1969) was a major international festival held in Lagos, Nigeria, from...
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    Genevieve Nnaji (category 20th-century Nigerian actresses)
    language — English. Nnaji, in response to Ava DuVernay's Tweet, took to Twitter to explain that the country Nigeria as presently constituted, does boast of...
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    which is one of the most traditional soups in Nigeria. It is native to the Igbos of Eastern Nigeria. In Nigeria, twigs and sticks from this plant are used...
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    Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (category Governors of the Central Bank of Nigeria)
    engendered a culture of high level corruption and economic inefficiency – the removal of the subsidy was unpopular and led to the Occupy Nigeria movement...
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    Senegal (redirect from Culture of Senegal)
    Niokhobaye, "Chronique du royaume du Sine", Suivie de notes sur les traditions orales et les sources écrites concernant le royaume du Sine par Charles Becker...
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  • Garifuna (redirect from Garifuna culture)
    origins Efik (Nigeria-Cameroon residents), Ibo (Igbo) (Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea), Fons (residents between Benin - Nigeria), Fante and Ashanti...
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    Nupe people (category Ethnic groups in Nigeria)
    by the neighbouring Yoruba) are an ethnic group native to North Central Nigeria. They are the dominant ethnic group in Niger State and a minority in Kwara...
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    Sao civilisation (redirect from Sao culture)
    traditions in West Africa: New evidence from the Chad Basin of north-eastern Nigeria". Antiquity. 82 (316): 423–437. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00096915. Magnavita...
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    December 2022). "A question of rite—pearl millet consumption at Nok culture sites, Nigeria (second/first millennium BC)" (PDF). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany...
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    Niger (redirect from Republique du Niger)
    Guilhem, "L’histoire du Niger, de l’Afrique et du Monde"; Edicef, Les royaumes Haoussa, pp. 104–112 Metz, Helen Chapin, ed. (1991). Nigeria: A Country Study...
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  • "Traditionalists" in his 2006 book Culture Warrior. Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez attributes the 1990s emergence of culture wars to the end of the Cold War...
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    Tijaniyyah (category Islam in Nigeria)
    Triaud, 2000 "Nigeria Court in Kano Sentences Cleric to Death for Blasphemy". BBC. 6 January 2016. Diouf, Niokhobaye, "Chronique du royaume du Sine, suivie...
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  • Oyotunji (category Yoruba culture)
    analogous to the villages of the traditional Yoruba city-states in modern-day Nigeria, although modernization of the village's public works have been carried...
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    Culture and Communication and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, and serves as both a museum and as a center for research. The Musée du quai...
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