In our last two posts (part 1 and part 2), we did a survey of two politically influential tribes in Southern Nigeria; the Yoruba and the Igbo tribes and we looked at their origin and socio-political

In our last post, we took a look at the Yoruba tribe of South-western Nigeria, their origin and their cultural heritage. We saw some versions of the origin of the Yoruba ethnic group and their socio-political

Nigeria is home to about 250 ethnic groups with an excess of 500 indigenous languages. Among these ethnic groups, the top three strategic and politically influential ones are Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa (including