PAGAN9JA:
If the british had divided Hausaland and parts of Niger and Chad as one separate entity (Arewa/Hausaland), and Northern Cameroon and Adamawa as a separate entity and South-East Nigeria with South Cameroon and South-West Nigeria with Benin &Togo..............the entire African division of countries would have made MORE SENSE.

Ceasar1:

There you go Sir, you dislike the diversity your self. Now imagine if all Nigerians were Yorubas Or Igbos or Hausas, definitely things would had turned out different because we'd all understand one other.
You've made your point.

pazienza:


Diversity has played more role in Nigeria than religion. The civil war,which is the biggest event in Nigerian history was a diversity issue.

Thousands were massacred in the North, simply because they were Igbos. It's a diversity issue.

pazienza:


America is a migrant country,all the whites there are migrants,like wise the blacks and asians, the original native Americans tribes were at the throat of each other before the coming of the whites.

America is a poor example to use to explain the Nigerian problem. A better example would be Europe, a simple look at the map of Europe would reveal how small some of their countries are, their boundaries weren't artificially created,they were formed in wars. We saw how Yugoslavia,a similar anomaly like Nigeria,broke down into pieces,a similar fate awaits Nigeria.

Online Dictionary:
DIVERSITY: Variety ; especially :  the inclusion of different types of people (as people of different races or cultures) in a group or organization.

tbagjames: Research shows that most Nigerian languages will be extinct in the next 50 years. This research might be quite through judging from what has been happening in Nigeria. My reasons are as follows:
1. Town syndrome- most parents never take it as a cultural priority to take their wards to their hometowns where these languages are spoken flawlessly. They prefer to raise them in towns and cities.
2. Queen's english- i often here parents telling their wards to speak queen's english. It's difficult to hear a parent telling a child to speak Oba's Yoruba, Emir's Hausa or so.
3. Conflicts. Conflict tend to seperate large communities of a lingua. As they split, they mingle wit larger groups and take up the ways of that group thereby forgetting theirs.
4. The list is endless

BrAkingNews: yea, ete o dahi oo, waadahi?

pazienza:

No ethnic group in Southern Nigeria is bigger than Igbo, don't see any need for us to take note.

Briareos:

Diversity might have played a part in the civil war, but the war was majorly caused by politics. Politics and bad policies have been the major cuase of enmity among Nigerians.

Diversity, in itself, is not evil. The use of it through propanganda and the divide-and-conquer tactics of our leaders is what's EVIL.

1shortblackboy: my point exactly. That an ethnic group speaks "ur language" is not conclusive evidene that that group ïs a part of ur ethnic group

Briareos:





Do we have different types of people in both US and Nigeria?

Do we have different types of races in both US and Nigeria?

Do we have different types of cultures in both US and Nigeria?

Whether it was migration or settlement or amalgamation that caused their diversity is of little importance.

Lagos is the best state in Nigeria today because of, and not limited to, her diversity. Yes, there are scruples here and there but its no different from the model in a homogeneous environment like Ekiti.

Diversity is a neutral tool. The use of it is what's not neutral. Unlike religion whereby eternal hell is promised to anybody not following your own particular religion. And unlike politics where your opposition is well, your opponent.


So, once again, diversity has no significant impact in the issues of Nigeria. Some wiser policy makers would have taken advantages of the diversity.

makzeze: HAUSA.
( This bros u chop cow sheet).

SHOULD BE MADE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF NIGERIA.

teewhybabee: madahi, waho.

In sociology and political studies, the term diversity (or diverse) is used to describe political entities (neighborhoods, student bodies, etc.) with members who have identifiable differences in their cultural backgrounds or lifestyles.

The term describes differences in racial or ethnic classifications, age, gender, religion, philosophy, physical abilities, socioeconomic background, sexual orientation, gender identity, intelligence, mental health, physical health, genetic attributes, behavior, attractiveness, or other identifying features.

pazienza:


This would be true,if Ndiigbo had once colonized the group in question, or if the group speaks Igbo language or any of it's dialects as a second and not first language.


However, if a group that speaks an intelligible Igbo dialect as it's first language, but disclaims being Igbo. That group is cursed, and suffers from self hate/ inferiority complex( a trait not known amongst Ndiigbo), hence the group is obviously of an inferior stock, and would be deemed too inferior to bear the great name Igbo,by the rest of Igbo speaking tribes.

1shortblackboy: were d groups that were mentioned in d original post that are about to loose their language colonised by other groups ? Colonisation is not d means by which a group looses its language its by d dominance of a larger group and d more wide usage of its language that results in d extiction of d language of a smaller group. Ps thers no need to insult people because of their stance

pazienza:

The groups that were mentioned in this thread have a first language which is about becoming a dead language,to be replaced by a second language which belongs to their neighbours.


In the case of the cursed tribes that speak Igbo dialects and yet deny being Igbo, there are no history of dead languages, rather what they have is their original Igbo Languages being modified by their borrowing of one or few words from their non Igbo neighbours. All the words in their language, that represents antiquity, such as King, land,heavens,water,ancient gods,etc, remain Igbo,despite their distance from central Igbo area known as the South East,and their proximity to people who speaks languages completely non intelligible to the Igbo man in the South East.

pazienza:


This would be true,if Ndiigbo had once colonized the group in question, or if the group speaks Igbo language or any of it's dialects as a second and not first language.


However, if a group that speaks an intelligible Igbo dialect as it's first language, but disclaims being Igbo. That group is cursed, and suffers from self hate/ inferiority complex( a trait not known amongst Ndiigbo), hence the group is obviously of an inferior stock, and would be deemed too inferior to bear the great name Igbo,by the rest of Igbo speaking tribes.

Fulaman198: Most of the endangered languages are in the North and are being dropped in favour of Hausa language. Even my mighty Fulfulde language is starting to be dropped in favour of Hausa.

It's sad because in other African countries outside of Nigeria, the Fulani language is very widely spoken. Too many Hausa wannabes.

pickabeau1:

is that so? or that the conquerors did not instill their own language to foster elitism... dying out is natural with nationalism

Fulaman198:

There are many smaller ethnic groups like the Tangale, Vutes, Bade, Buras, Bolewas, Ga'anda people, Tera, etc all in the same region giving to their indigenous languages to Hausa. It's a result of smaller ethnic group being submerged into a much larger one.

pickabeau1:

Yes.. but Fulani was the lanaguage of the conquerors... how come they could not subsume Hausa

Abiagirl777: Come to Eleme LGA Rivers state and hear languages.none of de communities there can understand what the neighbouring community speaks.in de next 20 yrs,what you'll hear there is English,pidgin and Igbo languages.
Talk of Extinction

Fulaman198:

Good question, I don't how why