Sugar cane and other Nigeria Local Custom Tips

Sugar cane seller near Abuja

by sachara

One of the crops you can find in Nigeria is sugar cane. People like to eat and chew the sweet sugar cane. So in the villages and markets along the road you will find very often people who are selling pieces of sugar cane. It's cheap and tasty.

I had my first piece of sugar cane in Cuba in the 70s. So it was nice to try it again here in Nigeria.

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Local Customs: Mud architecture

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Updated by sachara

on Dec 14, 2005

Jos, mixing the red mud with grass.

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In Nigeria you can see - as in many West African countries - buildings constructed of mud. I like this mud- or adobe-architecture. You can make wonderful organic forms.

In the traditional villages you can see many round huts made of mudblocks. Also the Kano Wall and its at full-scale reconstructed replica in the Museum of Traditional Nigerian Architecture in Jos are made of the local red mud.

The people working at this replica in Jos were very willing to explain me about their work. For strenghtening the material for example, they mix the mud with grass. And every 2 or 3 year they have to repair the mud buildings, to keep them in good shape.

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Local Customs: Religion, mosques in the north-east

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on Dec 14, 2005

Mosque, Suleja, west of Abuja.

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In Nigeria three primary religions are practiced: islam, christianity and animism.

In the north islam dominates and in the south christianity. In the south you can find the most practice of animism, sometimes combined with christianity.

In the north-east of Nigeria we saw a lot of these small mosques in the towns and villages.
Also some petrolstations have their small mosques, mostly in the same yellow-green colours as the petrolpumps.

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Local Customs: Herds of cows, goats and sheeps

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on Dec 14, 2005

Herd of cows, in the east of

Nigeria

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Everywhere in Nigeria, almost everyday, we saw a lot of herds with cows, goats, or sheeps.

There were also very often mixed herds. We saw them not only in the rural areas, but also near roads with a lot of traffic and in towns, even in Abuja. I liked especially the wide horned cows.

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Local Customs: Rubbish, what to do with it ?

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Written by sachara

on Apr 16, 2004

Suleja, rubbish in the river

by sachara

In Nigeria, as in most African countries, rubbish-disposal or collecting is not usual. Nor by the local government or otherwise looked it had a high priority.
So you can find rubbish just everywhere.
Like in Suleja, a small town just west of Abuja, the river in the centre is totally filled with rubbish.

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Local Customs: Everything on the head.

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Written by sachara

on Apr 16, 2004

Everything on the head

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