My culture, My identity

Culture is the total way of life of a group of people, which helps to identify people and their tribes because everyone has their own culture.

There are three main tribes in Nigeria. We have the Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa, and the easiest way to identify people from these tribes is through their language and mode of dressing. Each tribe has its unique language, and when they speak it, one can easily tell which tribe they are from.

Recently, I have been a fan of native wear, but it always escaped my mind to take pictures. Fortunately, my partner, who loves taking pictures, took this of me while I was trying to round up my work for an outing.

Our culture defines our dressing, people can easily tell my tribe based on my mode of dressing above, some people often think I am from the Igbo tribe, I guess cos of my look and nowadays it is even difficult for them to figure out the truth when most time I converse with english language, so only few that we end up getting close that later get to know my tribe.

Each tribe has its own culture regarding marriage. The Hausa marriage is the cheapest, while the Yoruba follows, and the Igbo is the most expensive because you have to pay the parents, siblings, uncle, and other extended family if you want to marry their daughter... I have seen many people complain about how expensive their marriage cost and the reason why some people don't want to marry from their tribe.

My tribe has a different masquerade festival, and the way they are done is different; there are some masquerades that, when they want to come out, all females must be indoors because it is an abomination for the females to see them.

When it comes to greetings, I will give it to my tribe[Yoruba]. We are so respectful, the boys were taught to prostrate when greeting the elders, while the girls kneel down on both knees. Even though western life has made many stop doing this unless on special occasions and special people like parents and in-laws, but still, we love to greet.

My partner once asked me if there is any culture we practice she needs to know about but I told her there is nothing to worry about because I am not deeply rooted in culture and even if there is any, it doesn't mean I would practice it especially if it doesn't go well with me, I have heard about some culture that the wife needs to eat a cooked lizard after givig birth, some they have to dip the child inside a body of water to know if he is a bastard or not, I do not support this kind of culture because there are better ways to know a bastard child and DNA is the way, why go through the risk of drowning the innocent child and the part of eating lizard, yuck!

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