Nigerians Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Culture == [[Nigerian culture]] was profoundly affected by the [[Colonial Nigeria|British colonial rule]].<ref name="Toyin Falola 2001. pp. 18">Toyin Falola. ''Culture and Customs of Nigeria''. Westport, Connecticut, USA: Greenwood Press, 2001. p. 18.</ref> Such as British colonial authority's denouncement and attacks upon [[polygamy]], trial by ordeal, and certain types of sacrifices.<ref name="Toyin Falola 2001. pp. 18"/> At the same time, British colonial authorities maintained and promoted traditional Nigerian culture that strengthened colonial administration.<ref name="Toyin Falola 2001. pp. 18"/> The [[British Empire|British]] spread [[Christianity]] throughout southern Nigeria and Christian missionaries assisted British authorities in establishing a [[Western world|Western]]-style education system in [[Nigeria]] that resulted in the teaching of [[English language]] in Nigeria and its subsequent adoption as Nigeria's main language.<ref name="Toyin Falola 2001. pp. 18"/> The British replaced unpaid household labor with [[wage labour]].<ref name="Toyin Falola 2001. pp. 18"/> Prior to colonisation in the twentieth century, Nigeria's tribes usually [[Land tenure|possessed the land]] as a community, such that land could not be bought or sold.<ref name="Toyin Falola 2001. pp. 4" /> [[Colonization|Colonisation]] brought the notion of individuals owning land and the commercialisation of land began.<ref name="Toyin Falola 2001. pp. 4" /> <gallery heights="132" mode="packed"> File:Hausawomen.jpg|[[Hausa language|Hausa]] [[Fula people|Fulani]] Nigerian women, wearing traditional clothing File:Inside the Palms1.jpg|Nigerians shopping in a mall in [[Lagos]] File:Kwarastatedrummers.jpg|[[Yoruba people|Yoruba]] Nigerian men of [[Kwara State|Kwara]] origin, wearing traditional clothing and playing drums File:Durbar.jpg|Horseman at the [[Durbar festival|Kano Durbar festival]] File:Igbo hat and Isiagu.jpg|[[Igbo people|Igbo]] Nigerian men, wearing the modern [[Isiagu]] with traditional Igbo men's hat File:IGBO CULTURAL ATTIRE.jpg|An [[Igbo people|Igbo]] man in his cultural attire File:Eyo Iga Jump.jpg|An Eyo Iga Olowe Salaye masquerade jumping File:LocationNigeria.png|Map of west [[Africa]], showing Nigeria in dark green File:View of Lokoja city from mountain Patti, Lokoja.jpg|A view of [[lokoja]] on top of hill [[Mount Patti]]. Kogi state </gallery> In Nigeria, more than fifty percent of Nigerians live in [[Village|villages]] of two different types: the first type used by the [[Igbo people|Igbo]] and [[Tiv people|Tiv]] involves a collection of dispersed compounds while the second type used amongst the [[Hausa–Fulani|Hausa-Fulani]], [[Yoruba people|Yoruba]], and Kanuri involves nuclei of compounds.<ref name="Toyin Falola 2001. pp. 6">Toyin Falola. ''Culture and Customs of Nigeria''. Westport, Connecticut, USA: Greenwood Press, 2001. p. 6.</ref> These villages compose members of the ethnicity-related through ancestry as well as strangers who have been assimilated into the ethnicity.<ref name="Toyin Falola 2001. pp. 6" /> Since the time prior to colonisation to the present it has been a common practice of Nigeria's tribes to adopt strangers into the tribes.<ref name="Toyin Falola 2001. pp. 4" /> A male elder in the community commonly serves as a village chief or Baale.<ref name="Toyin Falola 2001. pp. 6" /> In the large cities of Nigeria, there is a substantial [[intermingling]] of Nigerians with foreigners, especially Europeans, [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]], and [[Indian people|Indians]].<ref name="Toyin Fall 2001. pp. 8" /> The economic importance of Nigeria's cities has resulted in migrations of people from their traditional ethnic or cultural homeland to cities outside those territories.<ref name="Toyin Fall 2001. pp. 8" /> Igbo, Hausa-Fulani and Ibibio people have commonly migrated to [[Lagos]] and many southerners migrate to the north to trade or work while a number of northern seasonal workers and small-scale entrepreneurs go to the south.<ref name="Toyin Fall 2001. pp. 8" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page