The West African Nation of Nigeria

The Republic of Niger, a poor, landlocked country, located in the heart of Sub-Saharan West Africa. Niger has seen its fair share of change throughout the decades; moving away from the control of the French Parliament in 1960, Niger formally declared its independence. Despite this bold act of independence, Niger would not see its first steps towards democracy until the early 1990’s, when they held their first open election as a free state. However, even with the empowerment of the people in a democratic government, Niger has seen itself nearly torn apart as a result constant coups, that have occurred as recently as 2010. Such instability has led to incredulous amounts of corruption and poverty, within the Niger government. This lack of stability and constant turnover in government, has been a driving factor behind the lack of resources available for education in Niger.

Independent from British ruling since 1960, Nigeria today still suffers from ethnical and religious divisions as well as unequal distribution of power and resources among its regions. A high degree of violence and insecurity has shaped Nigeria’s political framework since colonial times. The region is characterized by systematic human under-development and socio-political decay. By draining resources from development, terrorism creates an additional burden on the society and interferes with development opportunities.

In this beautiful earth, there are so many countries we could learn about and so many interesting facts.Most people try to choose the easy route and find out more about the U.S.A. but today were doing Africa, better yet Nigeria which is in West Africa.An online article states that,Nigeria is mostly known for their oil and petroleum production. This country is located on the western coast of africa with climates ranging from arid to humid equatorial, some of the things that their land is environmentally known for are the savannas, tropical forest and coastal wetlands. Nigeria covers 356,669 square miles about twice the size of California. With hundreds of people, this means there's over

the North Region of Nigeria. While Muslims can be found in all parts of Nigeria, their strongest footholds are among the Hausa and the Yoruba. The Igbo Christians in the North were not likeable. The Muslims wanted to start the Sharia law in some areas whereas Christians would not stand for it. There were many tensions between the two religions. The people from both religions to their faith very serious and if anyone tried to disturb them then it was war.

Between the years 1500 and 1900, Europeans forced hundreds of millions of people from West and Central Africa to become slaves in the Americas. Once in the Americas, they were put on plantations and worked in brutal, degrading conditions. Millions of Africans were killed in the process. They were stripped of their identity and were no longer considered human, just a slave to the forces of white men.

The European imperial and colonial influence on Nigeria was tremendous and ended up hurting the tribal traditions in the area. This is evident in books like Things Fall Apart and Death of a King’s Horseman where the traditions of the tribes were weakened by the through the British rules and laws. For example, in Death of a King’s Horseman, the play opens on Elesin needing to commit suicide based on the tribal traditions. However, the British official in the area viewed it as a barbaric and primitive practice that is against the rules of the British Empire. Due to this there was a fight between the two cultures with maleness being one of the cornerstones of the Nigerian society being criticized through this struggle.

The economic condition of Nigeria has been damaged due to conflict among several competing ethnic, tribal and religious group has limited political stability and led to political strife. As per United Nations, Nigeria has low human development because of the high number of illiteracy among adult population and also due to low life expectancy rate.

The first was the weak sense of nationalism caused by all the ethnic groups where religion played a major part of the division. The main three ethnicities in Nigeria are Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo; the former is Muslim while the two latter are Christians. The second cause mentioned was the “divide and rule” which was a British tactic to employ ethnic groups against one another, and thus “helped ensure that ethnicity would be the main line of political cleavage after Nigeria became an independent country.” The third cause is the personal rule system based on “big men” and what this means is that Nigerian’s who worked for the British used their personal relationships to gain power and wealth, and in a certain way it is still used today in the Nigerian government. The fourth devastating cause was the “creation of an increasingly active and interventionist state during WWII and after until its independence in 1960, but that opened the doors to patronage, which would be used to gain political power and wealth. The past reveals the problems Nigeria has had for several decades, some of which have not disappeared but seem to get progressively worse. (CITATION)

Nigeria has two major religions, which are Islam and Christianity. Fifty percent of populations believe in Islam, forty percent of populations believe in Christianity. Christianity is one of the legacies that British had left. Gordon said that religion was one of the ways for Nigerians used to resolve political, economic, and social

Conflicts in Africa, specifically in West African countries have been rampant for many years. As a result of these conflicts, loss of life and properties has been witnessed for a number of decades. Conflicts are as old as human kind. We can not avoid conflicts completely but they can be managed. Since human exhibits different behaviour and aspirations, this in most cases leads to conflicts. In West African countries, such conflicts have been fueled by a number of factors and individuals with different personal motives.

What are the farthest northern, western, eastern, and southern points in Nigeria as described in absolute terms? (4 absolute locations [estimate to nearest degree], 2 coordinates each) Find and note the same for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Estimate to the nearest degree using a map.)

Nigeria is a country in the Western part of Africa. It is one of the earliest countries to be exposed to European influence. There are three major tribes, Igbos, Yorubas and Hausas. Social status in the world in very important, It is portrayed in different forms. However, it is crucially used in Africa, the Igbos exhibit their social status with titles. In Chinua Achebe’s novel “Things fall apart”, he beautifully describes the tragic fall of the Umuofia people of the Igbo tribe in the southern part of Nigeria along the Niger. He talks about his protagonist Okonkwo, a man of strength and weakness, of caliber and pain and of perseverance and shame as he sees his world crumble before his eyes. This paper aims to explain how social status is

Authors have identified remote and immediate causes of the Nigerian Civil War. There were remote and immediate causes of the civil war. While the remote causes of the civil war in Nigeria are factors that imply that there were underlying factors that gradually built up overtime the tension that eventually led to the civil war, the immediate causes were simply triggers to the tension that had reached boiling point. These causes shall be summarized to include but not restricted to the following as discussed below.

This research work sought to examine the effect of violent conflict and the challenge of food security in the North Eastern region of Nigeria as well as its effects on other part of the country and neighbouring countries. Emphasis was placed on analysing the relationship between violence and agricultural productivity and investments in the region using contextual analysis based on both primary and secondary data. The theoretical perspective that was adopted is the frustration aggression theory which states that people will always resort to violence/aggression whenever they are excessively frustrated. This theory was therefore employed to understand causes of the problem of violent conflict in the North East. It was established that violent conflict has caused a lot of problems for the people living in that region most especially with regards tofood security since most of the inhabitants of this region are subsistence farmers and since they have been displaced, cannot cultivate their farms to feed themselves. The study recommends that government should tackle the root cause of violent conflict and strengthen the fight against insurgency in order to bring lasting peace to the region. The study also suggested that the economy should be highly

Between 2003 and 2009, poverty fell from 22% to 7% in Brazil. In the same timeframe, income among the poor in Brazil increased seven times as fast as that of the rich. These results came, in large part, because of Brazil’s cash transfer program, Bolsa Familia which presented the country’s poorest households with cash transfers conditional upon meeting health and education standards for their children. Thanks to results like these, the world paid attention to CT programs and began to copy them, including in Africa. The results have been mixed but more hopeful than not. CT programs offer a qualified hope for African development provided that the programs have an adequate scope, proper accountability measures and institutional strength as seen through the case studies of Malawi and Nigeria.