L'ACUDE

The African Art  Unlike the art of Western societies, traditional African art was a functional and necessary part of everyday life and it would be impossible to understand African culture without an understanding of their art. Sculpture also served to symbolize authority and played important roles in maintaining social control. African sculpture is new and unfamiliar to most Americans

The  Ikwerre nation is arguably the largest ethnic nationality in present day Rivers State. The reasons for this deduction are not far fetch. It is made up of not less than four major Local Government Areas, and occupies the largest land mass in the state. Like most ethnic groups in Nigeria, the history of Ikwerre could

The People of YORUBA ORIGIN The Yoruba homeland is located in West Africa. It stretches from the savannah (grassland) region in the north to a region of tropical rain forests in the south. However there are also some scattered groups in Benin and Togo and small countries to the west of Nigeria. Current census figures are difficult to obtain but the Yoruba population is estimated to be about 5.3 million. The Yorubas originated from Ile-Ife, arose and became quite popular by their trading with the Portuguese, which gave them a large supply of guns.

About the Hausa People ORIGIN The Hausa people are concentrated mainly in Northwestern Nigeria and in adjoining southern Niger. This area is mostly semiarid  grassland or Savanna, dotted with cities surrounded by farming communities. The cities of this region—Kano, Sokoto, Zari, and Katsina, for example—are among the greatest commercial Centers of sub-Saharan Africa (Africa south of the Sahara Desert). Hausa people are also found living in other countries of West Africa like Cameroon,