Capital City?
Abuja
Largest city?
Lagos
Why has it the biggest population and economy in Africa?
many resources (rubber, oil palms, natural gas)
many young people (medium age 18.5 yrs)
Other general facts
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
Society
More than 500 languages
250 ethnical groups (biggest 3 Hausa-Fulani [north] largest, Yoruba [southwest], Igbo [southeast]
Religion
Christian (45 %, mostly south)
Muslin (50%, mostly north)
Life expectancy
49-54 years
Niger Delta (oil industry)
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
Niger Delta (dye-workers)
hard job-> many chemicals, dangerous healthwise, bad working conditions
Nollywood
start: 1980s
great diversity & a lot of variations (genres, language)
2nd largest film industry
A lot of income & workplaces
Chances
natura Resources ( oil, natural gas…)
positive Development after gaining independence-> more global power
access to ocean
musicians, artists & actors ->redefining cultural identity
Challenges
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)
Politics
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
pre-colonialism
1500: slave trade
1807: slave trade was abolished by the british
Colonialism
1901: Nigeria becomes a british protectorate
1914: Nigeria becomes british colony
Post-colonialism
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
Blech, Büchse, Dose
tin
Währung
shillings
Verkehrsstillstand
gridlock
Bestechungsgeld
bribe
jmd bestechen
(to) bribe sb.
Bestechung
bribery
jmd. belagern, bedrängen
(to) beset sb.
anfällig sein für etw
(to) be prone to sth.
grausam, grauenhaft
atrocious
Gräuel(tat), Grausamkeit
atrocity
Förderation, Zusammenschluss
federation
Fähigkeit zu lesen
literacy
ein Analphabet sein
(to) be illiterate
Bruttoinlandsprodukt
gross domestic product
Existenzminimum
subsistence level, poverty line
Militärputsch
military coup
patriarchalisch
patriarchal
zersplittert
splintered
Herrschaftsgebiet
dominion, territory
Wirtschaftskraft
economic power
Küstenstaat
coastal state
nigerianische Mischsprache
Nigerian Pidgin “Naija”
verschmutzen
(to) pollute
Verfolgung
persecution
Oilindustrie
petroleum industry
Hausierer, Straßenhändler
hawker
Volksstamm
tribe
widerlich, unausstehlich
obnoxious
Verzweiflung
Despair
unschätzbar
Inestimable
Geröll, Schutt
rubble
auftauchen, entstehen
(to) emerge
mittellos, bettelarm
destitute
bäuerlich, ländlich
rural
Aberglaube
Superstition
Ungleichheit
disparity
bedauerlich, kläglich
deplorable
unterernährt
undernourished
über die Runden kommen
Ato make ends meet
Durchschnittsalter
median age
Aufruhr
turmoil
Apartheid, Rassentrennung
apartheid
Widerstand gegen etwas
opposition to sth.
entgegenstellen/ widersetzen
(to) oppose sb/sth
religion motivierte Gewalt
sectarian violence
vorwiegend
predominantly
Viehhirten
cattle herders
Einwohner
inhabitants
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