CULTURE
GASTRONOMY
The food of Nigeria is known for their variety and richness. Nigerians banquets are colorful and diverse, they use different spices, herbs and flavorings in conjunction with palm oil and peanut to create intensely flavored sauces and soups, which are often very spicy flavor thanks to the peppers and chili.
SPORTS
Football is one of the most practiced sports in Nigeria; they have their own Premier League, but in Nigeria the cricket and athletics, are other important sports commonly practiced. Nigeria won medals in sports like boxing, football, athletics, weightlifting and taekwondo.
​MUSIC
Nigeria has been called "the heart of African music". Mix native rhythms for the development of popular genres that are traditional in Nigeria, as apala, fuji, jùjú and yo-pop. Nigeria created his own music derived from Jamaican reggae culture where composers such as Fela Sowande.
Nigeria's music includes many kinds of traditional and popular African music. Nigeria has been called "the heart of African music" because of its role in the development of African music.
The essential element of the Nigerian music, and all the traditional African music, is the polyrhythm, in which two or more different hits are performed simultaneously.
There are different types of Nigerian music such as:
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Hausa
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The Igbo uses slit drums, xylophones, flutes, lyres, lutes udus and, more recently, imported European brass instruments.
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Yoruba music has become the most important component of modern Nigerian popular music, as a result of its early influence from European, Islamic and Brazilian forms.
All this types of music uses the same musical instruments
