isn't telling me where he lives? Such behavior is also true for
.
So, I started reasoning about the areas where and
live.
My two young Nigerian friends never told me what tribe they were or where they lived.
Haha, I already told you I am an Akwa Ibomite. They call us, Calabar, generally.
By the way, a Nigerian woman told me that she was a member of Akwa Ibomite.
When I saw 's hometown on a map, I felt that Nigeria was a very big world.😦
Akwa Ibom State is a state in the South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered on the east by Cross River State, on the west by Rivers State and Abia State, and on the south by the Atlantic Ocean. The state takes its name from the Qua Iboe River which bisects the state before flowing into the Bight of Bonny.[4] Akwa Ibom was split from Cross River State in 1987 with her capital Uyo and with 31 local government areas.
told me he couldn't converse with other Nigerians because there are over 100 tribes and different languages in Nigeria.😯
I have a lot of questions about the fact that a Nigerian woman spoke about her tribe while the Nigerian men did not.
So, I started reasoning about the areas where and
live.
The Yoruba people (Yoruba: Ìran Yorùbá, Ọmọ Odùduwà, Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire[31]) are a West African ethnic group that mainly inhabits parts of Nigeria, Benin and Togo. The areas of these countries primarily inhabited by Yorubas are often collectively referred to as Yorubaland. The Yorubas constitute more than 47 million people in Africa, are a few hundred thousand outside the continent, and bear further representation among members of the African diaspora. The vast majority of the Yoruba population is today within the country of Nigeria, where they make up 15.5% of the country's population according to CIA estimations,[32] making them one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa. Most Yoruba people speak the Yoruba language, which is the Niger-Congo language with the largest number of native or L1 speakers.[33]
In Africa, the Yoruba are contiguous with the Yoruboid Itsekiri to the south-east in the northwest Niger Delta, Bariba to the northwest in Benin and Nigeria, the Nupe to the north and the Ebira to the northeast in central Nigeria. To the east are the Edo, Ẹsan and the Afemai groups in mid-western Nigeria. To the northeast and adjacent to the Ebira and northern Edo groups are the related Igala people on the left bank of the Niger River. To the southwest are the Gbe speaking Mahi, Gun, Fon and Ewe who border Yoruba communities in Benin and Togo, to the west they are bordered by the Kwa speaking Akebu, Kposo of Togo, and to the northwest, by the Kwa speaking Anii, and the Gur speaking Kabiye, Yom-Lokpa and Tem people of Togo.[34] Significantly Yoruba populations in other West African countries can also be found in Ghana,[35][36][37] Benin,[35] Ivory Coast,[38] and Sierra Leone.[39]
Outside Africa, the Yoruba diaspora consists of two main groupings; the first being that of the Yorubas dispersed mainly to the New World between the 16th to 19th centuries, notably to the Caribbean (especially in Cuba) and Brazil, and the second consisting of a wave of relatively recent migrants, the majority of whom began to migrate to the United Kingdom and the United States following some of the major economic and political changes encountered in Africa in the 1960s to 1980s.[40]
The Igbo people (English: /ˈiːboʊ/ EE-boh,[13][14] also US: /ˈɪɡboʊ/;[15][16] also spelled Ibo[17][18] and formerly also Iboe, Ebo, Eboe,[19] Eboans,[20] Heebo;[21] natively Ṇ́dị́ Ìgbò) are an ethnic group in Nigeria. They are primarily found in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States. A sizable Igbo population is also found in Delta and Rivers States.[22] Large ethnic Igbo populations are found in Cameroon,[23] Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea,[24][25] as well as outside Africa. There has been much speculation about the origins of the Igbo people,[26] which are largely unknown.[27] Geographically, the Igbo homeland is divided into two unequal sections by the Niger River – an eastern (which is the larger of the two) and a western section.[28][29] The Igbo people are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa.[30]
The Igbo language[31] is part of the Niger-Congo language family. Its regional dialects are somewhat mutually intelligible amidst the larger "Igboid" cluster.[32] The Igbo homeland straddles the lower Niger River, east and south of the Edoid and Idomoid groups, and west of the Ibibioid (Cross River) cluster.
Before the period of British colonial rule in the 20th century, the Igbo were politically fragmented by the centralized chiefdoms of Nri, Aro Confederacy, Agbor and Onitsha.[33] Frederick Lugard introduced the Eze system of "warrant chiefs".[34] Unaffected by the Fulani War and the resulting spread of Islam in Nigeria in the 19th century, they became overwhelmingly Christian under colonization. In the wake of decolonisation, the Igbo developed a strong sense of ethnic identity.[35] During the Nigerian Civil War of 1967–1970, the Igbo territories seceded as the short-lived Republic of Biafra.[36] The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra and the Indigenous People of Biafra, two sectarian organizations formed after 1999, continue a non-violent struggle for an independent Igbo state.[37]
I guessed and
would belong to one of The Yoruba people and The Igbo people.
My name is Eze Samuel I'm a native of Abia State. Nigeria. It feels so nice to be here. And I am sure grateful to meet fellow writers like me who are ready to showcase their talents and give quality content just as I hope to do on this platform.
I am a student of the University of Uyo, department of business administration. At the moment schooling happens to be the only thing I do. I am of average height and a staunch lover of good entertainment. Ranging from movies to music to other top notch quality entertaining contents.
I stumbled upon an article by a young Nigerian named Eze Samuel.
His name had the letters Eze, similar to ezemmanuel.😦
The two names of Eze Samuel and ezemmanuel have the word Eze as if they were surnames of the same tribe.
So I guessed that Eze Samuel and ezemmanuel were like members of a tribe!😄
I guessed that Eze Samuel and ezemmanuel were members of the same tribe, given that they had Christian style names!