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Multi-Cultural Week
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Nigeria Continent: Africa
Current Population: 170,123,740
Official language: English, Hausa
How to say hello: “Sannu” “Salama alaikum”
Other languages: Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani, over 500 additional indigenous languages
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Religion Main religion: Muslim 50%, Christian
40%
Other religions: Indigenous 10%
National Symbol: Eagle
National Anthem: “Arise Oh Compatriots, Nigeria's Call Obey”
Legal System: mixed legal system of English common law, Islamic law (in 12 northern states), and traditional law
+ Popular Dishes Isu – spicy boiled
yams Dodo – fried
plantains
Efo – green stew Iyan – pounded yams and jollof rice
+Traditional Clothing Nigerian clothing is unique and attractive.
Lace, jacquard, adire, and ankara are some of the materials that are used to prepare dresses in Nigeria.
Other than traditional attire, the people also wear western attires.
+ Top – Buba is a loose top that reaches down a little below the waist.
Headgear – Gele (women) and Fila (men)
Bottom – Iro (women) and Sokoto (men)
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Nigeria has many local festivals that date back to the time before the arrival of the major religions, and which are still occasions for masquerade and dance.
The local festivals cover an enormous range of events: harvest festivals betrothal festivals investing of a new chief funerals
Customs and Traditions
+Arugungu Fishing Festival
(Harvest)
The Benin Festival (Matchmaking)
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Rite of Passage (Coming of Age) Celebration
In the Igbo tribe, the “Rite of Passage” experience is a celebration of an Igbo youth becoming an adult.
The youth spend the night before the initiation learning from elders what the Igbo community would expect from them, which includes teamwork, leadership, values, and responsibilities.
Customs and Traditions
+ Government Type: Federal Republic (like USA)
President: Goodluck Jonathan
Vice President: Mohammed Namadi Sambo
Fact: Gained its independence from
the UK in October 1, 1960
Capitol: Abuja
+ Other Facts Infant Mortality Rate: 74.36
deaths/ 1000 live births
Life Expectancy: Male: 48.95 years, Female: 55.33 years
Fertility Rate: 5.38 children born per woman
Literacy: Age 15 and over who can read and write Male: 72.1%, Female: 50.4%
+ Other Facts Nigeria is often called the
“Giant of Africa” Vastness of its land Diversity of its peoples and
language The largest population in
Africa Abundant natural
resources, including oil
Nigeria’s most important export is oil, more than half of which is shipped to the United States
At least 60% of Nigerians live below the poverty line, existing on less than a dollar a day. Unfair distribution of the
country’s oil wealth
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