Languages of Nigeria Essays

GEOG130-0108 Legacies of Colonization in Nigeria 03/02/2018 Introduction The name Nigeria was coined from the river Niger. Miss Flora Shaw who later became Lady Lugard named it Niger-Area on January 8th, 1897. Nigeria became a British protectorate as a Northern and Southern protectorate. Those two protectorates were amalgamated by 1914 by Lord Lugard. After 60 years of colonial rule, Nigeria finally gained her independence on October 1st, 1960. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa.

Wilkerson’s claim accurately describes the anarchic and chaotic situation that is currently taking place in Northern Nigeria. The country of Nigeria is facing many problems domestically. For example the Islamic militant group Boko Haram has claimed the lives of hundreds innocent Nigerian people since 2009. Initially focused on opposing western education, the phrase “Boko Haram” in the Hausa language means western education is sinful or forbidden”. Boko Haram fist started out as a political entity and was

inclusion in the context of Nigeria. II. DIVERSITY IN NIGERIA DEFINED When we talk of diversity in the context of Nigeria, a number of criteria easily come to mind. Identified are six criteria which the typical Nigerian would consider relevant. • Ethno/Linguistic • Religious • Regional • Gender • Age • Physical and Mental Disability I will take each of the above six criteria in turn and

A single story is about how different cultures live and learn in many ways. When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was four years old, she started to learn how to read and write in Nigeria. She also began writing at the age of seven. In Nigeria, the lifestyle along with the weather was consistent and never changed. The three specific examples that were used in the speech were her college roommate in the United States, the boy and his family, and Southern relatives that move to the north by Alice Walker. In

main character, goes through many trials and tribulations after the Nigerian Civil War ends. One of the main aspects where colonization shines through is the language that is spoken throughout the text. The narrator speaks in English, however when the thieves appear and Jonathan begins to yell for help, the language becomes a “proverbial language” that mixes both English aspects with African aspects that are spoken. In this scene, one of the thieves speaks with an African dialect: “War done finish and

Cultural understanding of Nigerian Immigrants in the United States In 2015 according to the United States census, Nigerian Americans (first and second generations) make up about 376,000 of the American population. There are several generations that are now residing in the United States for various reason. Some immigrants are several generations in and their presence is coincide with the dark history of slavery. Many today’s chooses to immigrant voluntarily for various reason including “ unrelenting

Literary Analysis Essay The story takes place in eastern Nigeria after a civil war. Jonathan Iwegbu, the main character, owns a bicycle, which he uses as a taxi to make money. He rides to Enugu where his family and home are, and to his surprise, everything he owns is still intact, even after the civil war. Jonathan and his family rebuild their lives by working odd jobs to become solvent. One day, Jonathan finds some rebel currency on the ground and turns it in for twenty pounds. That night, thieves

The war based movies usually grab the attention of viewers. The amazing tale Beasts of No Nation is novel which is written by the Nigerian-American in 2005, who Harvard-educated student and author Uzodinma Iweala, The Nove lwas adapted as a film in 2015. The novel which is adapted as a film in 2015 is about the young poor boy, Agu, Who is forced to join a group of soldiers in some unnamed West African country. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood

before and after the missionaries comes to colonize native. Missionaries endeavor to allay fears by coming on a platform of peace, but their final goal is to essentially change the beliefs of the community. Due to the arrival of white missionaries in Nigeria, there was an impact on traditional Igbo society in terms of culture, religion and politics. Before the arrival of missionaries in Igbo society, the social and family rituals, the marriage customs, crop sharing, religious beliefs and practices were

Traditional Christianity as an African Religion There are so many religions in the world like Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, African Religion and so many more. Although in Africa, the most respected and popular religion is Christianity and Islam, which is made up of majority of Africans. Traditional Christianity as an African Religion is an article written by Calvin Rieber and can be found on the pages 255-273 using the book, “African Religions: A Symposium, published in 1977 by Newell S

literature. Often times certain types of people or countries are stereotyped. this has happened to the Igbo tribe of Nigeria. One such stereotype is that the people of the Igbo Tribe were thought be be as savages. In defence to these assumptions Chinua Achebe wrote the novel Things Fall Apart. Achebe’s defence to these are that the Igbo people are civilized in culture, religion, language, and government. Culture is important to the Igbo people the quote” After the Week of Peace every man and his family

Ojukwu, gave a speech about the condition of affairs in the vanquished state on January 15, 1970. Ojukwu made the statement in an effort to mobilize his supporters and give a candid appraisal of the circumstances on the ground after the civil war in Nigeria came to an end. In his speech on the state of defeated Biafra, General Ojukwu successfully uses logos, ethos, and pathos to make an argument for the rights of his people, and his points are still relevant today. His defense of the right to self-determination

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's book, Purple Hibiscus, Adiche shows the effects of colonialism in a patriarchal society. This book was set in the 1990s from the perspective of 15-year old Kambili Achike. She lives as part of the Igbo tribe in colonialist Nigeria. Kambili lives with her abusive father, Eugene, submissive mother, Beatrice, and headstrong brother, Jaja. Throughout the book, we meet her Aunt Ifeoma, who is the mother of Amaka, Obiora and Chima. Kambili's grandfather, Papa Nnukwu does not believe

article about the topic of money and happiness in the novel Purple Hibiscus for People´s Magazine in the states. It was written with a euphoric tone and hopes to address and adult audience interested in Nigerian literature. In my article I used direct language and formal expressions. I tried as well to use a sophisticated level of vocabulary with word choices like Nigerian words and names. Finally I tried to use complex structures like one might see in as higher level publication such as Jet set

Thesis: My thesis will revolve around two critics; Chinua Achebe and Caryl Phillips and their critical reception of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The focus will be on the two postcolonial writers regarding their history; a history of suffering because of their skin color and their experience of being confronted to a new society and the impact of it. In fact, the Nigerian writer experienced colonialism under the British rule and its consequences. The Kittitian writer, on the other hand, belongs

Host: Warm welcome to everyone who joined us today in the studio to plunge into African society and culture. Today our topic of discussion will be “the Role of women in Things Fall Apart” by the famous Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe. The novel can be truly named influential, not only on African literature, but on literature around the world. Achebe is trying not only to inform the outside world about Igbo cultural traditions, but to remind his own people of their past and to assert that it had contained

I read an Ethnography called "A Song Of Longing, An Ethiopian Journey", by Kay Kaufman Shelemay. Shelemay gathered a good amount of religious music in a town of Gondar, a city in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian rules and regulations upset her research and ended up studying the Ethiopian Christian service in Addis Ababa. During that time, she met and married a Jewish businessman, Jack Shelemay, from a Middle Eastern (Aden), whose family was permanently settled in Ethiopia. "A Song Of Longing" is not a book

Chapter Two ANYOGU’S CULTURAL HISTORY AND ANCESTORS Daun Juan – LXXXI 11 … ship off the holy three to Senegal and ask them how they like to be in thrall. The Lord Byron 1807 Most Ibo speaking people claim to have originated from at least two deities. The Onitsha people claim at least five deity origins whilst the UmuEzeAroli tribe of Onitsha claim to have originated from seven deities with inferences of nobility and linage. This chapter seeks to explain and tell the story of linage and nobility

The urbanization and technology have negative influences on families. I believed that modern life has been putting a lot pressure on individual’s family. Nowadays, many parents are businessman and businesswoman who usually leave home early and come home late, whom will send their child to day care centre that result in lack of time to take care of their children. Besides that, parents who have a hectic lifestyle may lead to mental and physical degeneration which caused by the long-term depression

A stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person. Women have often been discriminated and said to be less strong, less intelligent and less capable than men. However, in the novel The Da Vinci Code written by Dan Brown it portrays women to have a very strong hold in detective work, history and life. This is evident through the character Sophie Neveu, history behind symbols and symbolism throughout art work. Women have not gotten the credit they