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People & Ethnicity
Nigeria's ethnic groups, traditional rulership, and notable Nigerians across major and minority communities.
- Major Ethnic Groups
- Minority Ethnic Groups
- Traditional Rulership & Royalty
- Notable Nigerians
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Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) was a Nigerian novelist whose 1958 debut, Things Fall Apart, became modern African literature's most widely read work. He served the…
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900–1978) was a Nigerian educator and women's rights campaigner who founded the Abeokuta Women's Union and led a 1946–1949 tax protest movement…
Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904–1996), popularly known as "Zik," was a Nigerian nationalist, journalist and politician who founded the influential West African Pilot newspaper in 1937…
Wole Soyinka (born 1934) is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist who in 1986 became the first Black African, and remains the only Nigerian,…
The Fulani are a historically pastoralist people found across the West African Sahel from Senegal to Sudan, with the largest single national population in…
The Hausa are a predominantly Muslim people native to Hausaland in what is now north-western and north-eastern Nigeria and southern Niger. Estimates of their…
The Igbo are one of Nigeria's three largest ethnic groups, native to south-eastern Nigeria and parts of Delta and Rivers states. Estimates put their…
The Yorùbá are one of Nigeria's three largest ethnic groups, native to south-western Nigeria, parts of Kwara and Kogi states, and neighbouring Benin and…