ThinkAfrica industrial profile Aliko Dangote and the Industrial Question For decades, many African economies exported raw materials, imported finished goods, and watched wealth leak outward through foreign refining systems, overseas factories, and dependency-heavy trade structures. Aliko Dangote built businesses aimed directly at that imbalance. The short answer: Aliko Dangote transformed a small Nigerian trading company […]
Nigeria is often described as a single country, but culturally it is closer to a continent. Anthropologists and linguists estimate that Nigeria contains around 372 distinct ethnic groups and over 500 languages, making it one of the most culturally diverse nations on Earth. (Source: Nigerian National Population Commission; Ethnologue language database) Yet within that diversity,
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Northern Nigeria is a very diverse part of Nigeria. Often people who haven’t done any research on Nigeria think that inhabitants of Northern Nigeria are one of two ethnicities: Hausa or Fulani. In reality there are about more than 95 ethnicities in total. If Northern Nigeria were a country, it would be the sixth largest
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A nation is a body of people with shared descent, language, history and culture. By that definition Nigeria is country of 372 nations.
10 largest tribes in Africa Africa has within it more than a billion people in 54 countries. It also has around 3,000 tribes, from diverse regions with varying numbers of people. 30% of the African population come from ten people groups or if you would prefer “tribes”. In almost every case, these tribes were precolonial
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African political systems In the time before the 19th century from 4,000 BCE to 1800 CE, African societies developed no fewer than fifteen unique political systems of government and property rights. In this article we look at what those systems were, examples of states that used them and over what length of time. Fundamentally political
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THE HAUSA ETHNICITY The Hausa people are one of the largest ethnic group in Africa. The old Hausa ethnic locations before the Fulani jihad were known collectively as Hausa Bakwai and Hausa Banza, where “Bakwai” was a term used for the original seven Legitimate(Bakwai) Hausa states: Biram, Daura, Gobir, Rano, Katsina, Zaria (Zazzau), and Kano.
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