Category: Culture – Language

Hausa Dialects

Culture – Language

The Hausa according to Onwubiko (1967:71) are “people who lived between the Kanuri in the East and Songhai in the West and Niger Benue junction to the desert south of Agades”. This assertion implies that the Hausa are found in West African countries like: Ghana, Niger Republic and Nigeria where they are found in the…
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Iduma

Culture – Language, Geography – Boundary, Towns/Cities

Iduma; are a people in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, a subset of the Abureni, which belongs in the Ogbia-Abureni language cluster and often identified with two other communities as the “Mini communities,” a corrupted form of “Nimi” (in the neighboring people, Nembe language) earned because of their shrewdness in trade. In…
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Urhobo people

Culture – Language, Culture – Others, Language, Social – Tradition, Tradition – Customs

Urhobo is the majority tribe in Ughelli North of Delta state, Nigeria, occupying the southern part of the Benin lowland and the floodplains swamps of the petroleum-rich Niger Delta. With a population of over 3 million people, the Urhobo people are among the eight largest ethnic groups in Nigeria and constitute the largest single ethnic…
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