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75Nollywood - The Nigerian Movie Industry
A Nollywood movie location So I keep going on and on about Hollywood and British movies, but I’m yet to really talk about the Nigerian movies, or the Nigerian movie industry called Nollywood. I know, silly...
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73Nigeria, the crude oil curse
Nigeria, the crude oil curse Nigeria, a nation generously endowed with human and natural resources, of late has fallen on bad and sad times. The cause of this self inflicted tragedy is not far...
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82Ikemefuma: A scapegoat
One of the major themes in Things Fall Apart revolves around the episode of Ikemefuna, a boy who comes to live with Okonkwo's family, as he is sacrificed to the Igbo people and their gods for the killing of a...
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63African Astronomers...
First of all, the word astronomy means the study of the activities of celestial bodies unlike astrology, which is regarded as a pseudoscience and used as a means of fortune telling and matchmaking. Astro =...
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59Nigerian Recipes: Nothing like a Home-cooked meal...
Serves four to six Ingredients 3 pounds stewing beef (optionally, goat meat or fish) 1 medium onion, chopped or ground in blender 1 teaspoon dried red pepper, crushed or ground fresh...
3 comments55The Nigerian Tragedy
The Nigerian Tragedy Nigeria, the most populous nation in black Africa well endowed...
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65Review: Things Fall Apart By Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart is a grueling book for young readers. This is hardly the fault of the book as much as the worldview of the reader. In my case, this is the book that I didn’t like at first, but as I grew...
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71Some Nigerian Urban Legends - 2nd Stanza
Mammy Water This is perhaps the mother of all urban legends in the country. The legend of the mammy water is enshrined in just about every Nigerian myth; this gives it full cult followership. The Mammy...
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66Africa: A Force of Nature
I’m from Nigeria, in case you haven’t figured that out yet, the most populated black nation on Earth, with over 140 million people; based on the report from the last (controversial) census –...
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60The importance of continued maintenance of diversity in languages for the survival of the human race.
I considered appending this essay to my other hub on languages, but thought it deserved a hub all to itself. People might not go back and read the other one due to where it is catalogued. I think the newer...
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