Information
population: over 210 mil, 87 mil live in Poverty, low life expectensy
Multinational over 250 ethnic groups and 500 languages
Teritory: around 900.000 km^2
official language: English
Economy based on Oil
History
19th century: Christian European Missionarys in the South Yoruba and Igbo were converted
1914: Unification as a british colony loss of Culture
tension between Muslims adn christians
1960: independance
Yaruba and Igbo: Christians in south
Hausa and Fulani Muslims in north
future: growing Economy not fast enough leads to Emigration (to USA)
Nigerian Literatur
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Book about Emigration and coming back to Nigeria
Image of Africa: people are poor, pure beutiful nature
Nollywood: third most valuable Movie industry, second highest Number fiilms, important for Africa
Last changed2 years ago