History of Nigeria’s Ethnic Tensions: One Nation, Many Divides
Elephant Memories History Podcast by Max Siollun
Episode notes
Someone once called Nigeria "the most complicated country in the world"! Nigeria has over 500 different languages, and is the only country in the world with a population split 50:50 between Christians and Muslims. In this episode with Dr Brandon Kendhammer, we explore how Nigeria has spent the past 50 years trying to find ways to ensure equal treatment and peaceful co-existence between hundreds of different ethnic groups, and its major religions. Have these measures succeeded? Or have they instead amplified ethnic, regional, and religious differences?
Keywords
nigeriapoliticsdemocracyreligionethnicitydiversity