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Wale Adebanwi. Wale Adebanwi (born 1969) is a Nigerian -born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford where he was, until June 2021, a Professor of Race Relations, and the Director of the African Studies Centre, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, and a Governing Board Fellow. [1] [2] [3] He is currently a Presidential ...
Isoko people are an ethnolinguistic group who inhabit the Isoko region of Delta State and Bayelsa State, Nigeria. [2] They are people of southern Nigeria, near the northwestern Niger delta. [3] Delta State and Bayelsa State are part of the 36 states of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Isokos speak the Isoko language, a language of the Kwa ...
Nigeria. Nationality. Nigerian. Education. Professor. Alma mater. Bayero University Kano University of Michigan (PhD) Moses Ebe Ochonu listen ⓘ is a Nigerian academic, historian, author and professor of African History at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He has been the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in History since 2017. [ 1][ 2][ 3]
Nigerian nationalism asserts that Nigerians as a nation should promote the cultural unity of Nigerians. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Nigerian nationalism is territorial nationalism and emphasizes a cultural connection of the people to the land, particularly the Niger and the Benue Rivers. [ 3 ] It first emerged in the 1920s under the influence of Herbert ...
One of the pioneering anthropologists and sociologists from Nigeria and among the first set of students to attend the first indigenous Nigerian university. First Public Relations Officer of the University of Nigeria's Student Union Association. Onigu Otite (January 21, 1939 – March 14, 2019) was a Nigerian sociologist.
Over 500 languages are spoken among its about 230 million people. This is a result of the number of existing ethnic groups. Some of the popular languages spoken in Nigeria are listed as follows: Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Ibibio, Kanuri, Ijaw, Edo, Fulfude, Tiv, and Urhobo to name a few. [2][3][4][5][6] Ethnicity in Nigeria (2018) [7]
Nupe people. The Nupe (traditionally called the Nupawa by the Hausas and Tapa 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 State. The Nupe are also present in Kogi State and The Federal Capital Territory. [4][5]
The flag of Biafra (1967–1970) is sometimes associated with contemporary Igbo nationalism. Igbo nationalism is a range of ethnic nationalist ideologies relating to the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria. [1] While the term is defined as seeking Igbo self-determination by some, others argue that it refers to the preservation and revival of ...