Nok culture

10 Traditions Only Nigerians Can Understand

• Pre-Marital Introduction Ceremonies, aka “Courtship” No matter how long you’ve been courting your partner, the relationship remains unrecognised until the formal introduction ceremony.
• Nwaboy (Servicehood/Apprenticeship)
• Child Dedication Ceremony.
• Greeting Elders.

There are three major tribes in Nigeria, called the Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, and Yoruba. These tribes make up nearly 70% of the country’s population.

Puppetry and storytelling are examples of traditional performance art. Crafts cover a wide range — from stone building to pottery, basket making, quilling, bead work, wood carving and more. Traditional arts often represent a place or a group of people.

The Nok are significant for being one of very few civilizations in the world that transitioned from stone tools straight to iron tools without first learning how to make copper or bronze tools. The legacy of the Nok people is difficult to determine due to the mystery around their identity and origins.

The most characteristic Nok artifacts are clay figurines of animals and stylized human beings, usually heads; perforated eyes of an elliptical or triangular shape are typical of the style. Other artifacts of the Nok culture include iron tools, stone axes and other stone tools, and stone ornaments.

NOK means “No One Knows”.

Updated January 25, 2020. Nok art refers to huge human, animal, and other figures made out of terracotta pottery, made by the Nok culture and found throughout Nigeria.

Nok art refers to huge human, animal, and other figures made out of terracotta pottery, made by the Nok culture and found throughout Nigeria.

In 1943, tin mining in the vicinity of the village of Nok near the Jos Plateau region of Nigeria brought to light a terracotta head, evidence of the oldest known figurative sculpture south of the Sahara. Most Nok sculpture is hollow and coil-built like pottery. …

Nok is a village in Jaba Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Nigeria.

Iron Age Culture The Nok culture prospered thanks to iron-smelting technology which permitted the manufacture of iron tools.

Ile Ife is said to be dated back around 500 B.C. when it was founded and is the oldest Yoruba city. It is presently part of Osun State and has an estimated population of 501,000 people.

The Yoruba-speaking peoples share a rich and complex heritage that is at least one thousand years old. Today 18 million Yoruba live primarily in the modern nations of southwestern Nigeria and the Republic of Benin.

The first Oòni of Ife is a descendant of Oduduwa, which was the 401st Orisha. The present ruler since 2015 is Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, Ooni of Ife who is also a Nigerian accountant….Traditional setting.

The word Ifa refers to the mystical figure Ifa or Orunmila, regarded by the Yoruba as the deity of wisdom and intellectual development.

The occurrences, events, and activities are revealed to humans through the elaborate divination process of Ifa. Through Ifa, the role of the diviner (known as a babalawo) is to help an individual or community to see what is in store for them in their day-to-day lives.