THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA

THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA
by okei chidi,
Nigeria is the most populous black country in the world, with numbers
close to about 140 million people. It is endowed with vast and abundant
natural and human resources. Nigerians belong to more than 250 ethnic
groups. Within these ethnic or language groups, there are different
dialects. Members of each group are normally concentrated in one area.Now,
many Nigerians live in different parts of the country and speak the
language of their host. So the modern town Nigerian is a man or woman of
many ethnic groups.
Picking a group of ten people in any major town in Nigeria, the chances
are about 90-1 that they belong to different ethnic groups. This
melting pot scenario does not preclude the facts that ethnic rivalry
and
jealousies do exist as a part of the culture.
The over 250 ethnic groups are related one way or another to one
another. They settled in the region, now called Nigeria, some 15
centuries
ago from yet to be proven origin, probably from the Middle East, where
most of the groups are said to originate. Inter and intra migration
helped increase the diversity and confusion in defining ethnic origins.
Most of the ethnic groups are to be found in the middle belt, where
every town has a different language.
There are three major groups with over 10 million people: Hausa-Fulani
in the north, Yoruba in the southwest, and the Igbos in the southeast.
These three dominate the regions in which they are found. There are
basically two types of Nigerians: the Nilotic Africans (Arab-type) and
the
Negroes. Each of the ethnic groups fall into these two groups.
Of the 250 linguistic groups that make up the 130 million people that
live in Nigeria, not less than 50% of them are Hausa-Fulani, Yorubas,
or
Igbos.


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