Cultural Information - Nigeria
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Gender: In terms of power relations, Nigeria is still a society centered on men, especially if you move north. In 2000, only 3% of the Federal Political Bureau was held by women. Unmarried women and widows are not respected. According to the Nigerian Penal Code, violence against a wife is permitted unless it causes "serious damage" such as blindness. Some positive signs of social change are obvious. In the southern half of the country, women have considerable economic control over market transactions, the incidence of female genital excision and polygamy is decreasing and male attitude is slowly free. chemicals
Religion: 9 of the 10 Nigerians claim to be Christian or Muslim, but spiritual belief systems (ceremonial rituals, charm of the soul, sculptures embodying the gods etc.) are often overlapping . Unlike Canada's main secularism, churches and mosques are being held enthusiastically in Nigeria. Nigeria is mainly an associative element outside a family.
Class: During the majority of the 20th century, the Southern Nigerian society enjoyed relatively fluid social mobility. In fact, it is widely believed that Mashood Abiola was the winner of the 1993 presidential election failure, and his Yoruba compatriots proudly remember that they had amazing commercial success in low-income family education I will. In Northern Nigeria, the class level is more severe, mainly restricted by Islamic traditions.
Recent studies on income distribution have confirmed that emerging middle classes that are deeply rooted in the last 20 years have emerged and that this middle class is getting more and more away from the majority of the poor.
Ethnicity: Most foreigners and Nigerian scholars believe that the de facto civil society in Nigeria is ethnic in terms of the country's high political and economic uncertainty. In theory, the vertical property network guarantees that if the poorest people of family families simply vote for politician 's "giant" representative, they will benefit economically.
Nigerian small and non-profit organizations are usually homogeneous in terms of race and belief, but large corporations and institutions, particularly those in the center of large cities, often include representatives of four social aspects I will.
The culture of Nigeria consists of many ethnic groups in Nigeria. The country has 527 languages, 7 of which are extinct. There are more than 1,150 dialects and ethnicities in Nigeria. The largest six ethnic groups are Hausa and Fulani in the north, Ibo in the southeast, Joruba in the southwest, and Tiva and Efji-Ibibio in the northern middle of Nigeria. . The people of Edo are the most common in the area between Yorubaland and Igboland. Many Edo people are often Christian. Next is Ibibio / Annang / Efik on the south coast of Nigeria, and Ijaw in Niger delta.
IJO is mainly a group of indigenous peoples of rivers of Niger Delta of Biesa, Delta and Nigeria. Some people live in Akwa - Ibom, while Edo and Ondo are also in Nigeria. Outside Nigeria, they are distributed mainly in the Sierra Leone in Gabon in the east along the coastline of West Africa.
The Niger Delta is a natural delta in the area covered by the Niger River and the eastern and western regions. The Niger Delta consists of 9 out of 36 Nigerian states, with 185 local governments accounting for about 12% of the Nigerian territory (Figure 2). These states include Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, Rivers. Although the Niger Delta is the region producing the wealth of Nigeria, the development of the country of Nigeria has its limit (Higgins 2009: 1)