The Durbar Festival is a cultural, religious and equestrian celebration held by the Hausa people annually, usually coinciding with major Muslim festivities. It was born as military parades in the 14th century. During the celebration of the Durbar Festival, each noble house parades before the Emir, acting as a regiment, to demonstrate their loyalty to […]
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When Joan Riera (founder of Last Places) was studying Anthropology in the mid-1990s at Richmond University in London, he came across a rare book titled ‘The Dukkawa of Northwest Nigeria’. The author was the anthropologist Celsius Prazan, a pastor from Chicago who lived among several tribes of northwest Nigeria in the 1970s. As today, Joan, […]
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The Igbo people are an ethnic group native to the central and southeastern Nigeria. Geographically, the Igbo homeland is divided into two unequal sections by the Niger River. The Igbo people are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa. Location of the Igbo people in the territory of Nigeria Igbo economy Subsistence farming of […]
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With a population of over 30 million, the Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in all of Africa. Primarily, the Hausa people are found in the Sahel northern Nigeria and southeastern Niger. They are governed by Muslim emirs and their economy is based on agriculture, livestock and trade. The majority of the Hausa […]
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The Yoruba people stand as the dominant ethnic group in the Gulf of Guinea with more than 44 million people, as well as one of the most prominent in Africa. His homeland is in southwestern Nigeria, which is the epicenter of Yoruba culture, and in the adjacent parts of Benin and Togo. This region is […]
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