Culture, Economy and Society
Peoples, Languages and Arts
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- Which are the three largest ethnic groups in Nigeria?
- Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, the first African to do so?
- Who wrote the novel Things Fall Apart, published in 1958?
- Which musician is known as the creator of Afrobeat?
- What is the name of Nigeria's film industry?
- Which is a popular Nigerian dish of rice cooked in a spicy tomato sauce?
- Which language is the official language of Nigeria?
- The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove is on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Which people hold it sacred?
- Which annual festival in Kebbi State features a fishing contest?
- What is the Durbar?
- Which Nigerian cloth is made by resist-dyeing with indigo?
- The talking drum, played by Yoruba musicians, is called what?
- Which Igbo festival marks the harvest of the first yams?
- Who wrote Half of a Yellow Sun about the Nigerian civil war?
- Which traditional ruler's title is used in northern emirates such as Kano?
- The Sukur Cultural Landscape, a UNESCO site, lies in which state?
- Which writer won the Booker Prize in 1991 for The Famished Road?
- What is suya?
- Achebe took the title Things Fall Apart from which poet?
- Which Yoruba deity is the god of iron, hunting and war?
- Which Yoruba city is famous for naturalistic heads cast in copper alloy and modelled in terracotta?
- Which of these ethnic groups speaks a Chadic language rather than a Niger-Congo language?
- Which writer's novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard was published in 1952?
- Which title is used for a traditional ruler among the Igbo?
- Soyinka's play Death and the King's Horseman is based on events of 1946 in which Yoruba town?
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