Nigeria

Abuja

Lagos

many resources (rubber, oil palms, natural gas)

many young people (medium age 18.5 yrs)

Biggest gap between rich and poor -> one of the poorest african nations

bad working conditions

slums -> more than 112 mio live there

No health ensurance/ welfare system

More than 500 languages

250 ethnical groups (biggest 3 Hausa-Fulani [north] largest, Yoruba [southwest], Igbo [southeast]

Christian (45 %, mostly south)

Muslin (50%, mostly north)

49-54 years

oil industry/production (discovered 1956) 60%

biggest oil production in africa

huge fires/ explosions

oil in water/ lakes

millions of liters of oil -> profit

-> environmental pollution

hard job-> many chemicals, dangerous healthwise, bad working conditions

start: 1980s

great diversity & a lot of variations (genres, language)

2nd largest film industry

A lot of income & workplaces

natura Resources ( oil, natural gas…)

positive Development after gaining independence-> more global power

access to ocean

Nollywood

musicians, artists & actors ->redefining cultural identity

harsh terrain for agriculture

ethnic divisions -> many conflicts

population growth -> overpopulation-> expanding slums

geographic division

“brain-drain” young people leave the country -> bad future perspective

terroristic groups (Boko Haram) harass the country

child-marriage, genital mutilation, domestic violence & gender inequality, child labour, high corruption rate

problematic education (illiteracy rates 1/3)

independent

many corruption (including police)

doubts about political system -> not treating everyone fair, most politicians are corrupt, no change even when change in government

3 codes of law

1500: slave trade

1807: slave trade was abolished by the british

1901: Nigeria becomes a british protectorate

1914: Nigeria becomes british colony

1960: Nigeria becomes independent

1963: Nigeria becomes a republic

1966: military regime takes over

1967-70: Biafra war (civil war) -> ethnic tension

1975-83: period of democracy

1983-99: dictatorship

since 2009: Boko Haram

tin

shillings

gridlock

bribe

(to) bribe sb.

bribery

(to) beset sb.

(to) be prone to sth.

atrocious

atrocity

federation

literacy

(to) be illiterate

gross domestic product

subsistence level, poverty line

military coup

patriarchal

splintered

dominion, territory

economic power

coastal state

Nigerian Pidgin “Naija”

(to) pollute

persecution

petroleum industry

hawker

tribe

obnoxious

Despair

Inestimable

rubble

(to) emerge

destitute

rural

Superstition

disparity

deplorable

undernourished

Ato make ends meet

median age

turmoil

apartheid

opposition to sth.

(to) oppose sb/sth

sectarian violence

predominantly

cattle herders

inhabitants