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Nigeria’s peoples

All 147 peoples on the atlas, grouped by language family. Each page gives the homeland local government areas, the language, the traditional ruler, the kingdoms in its history, and the sources behind every claim.

Chadic

Plateau

Kainji

Upper Cross

Igboid

Lower Cross

Adamawa

Edoid

Jukunoid

Mande

Bendi

Ebira-Nupoid

Idomoid

Central Delta

Yoruboid

Ekoid

Jarawan (Bantu)

Mambiloid

Songhay

Arabic (Semitic)

Atlantic (Fula)

Berber (Tuareg)

Dakoid

Grassfields

Gur

Ijoid

Ogonoid

Oko

Saharan

Tivoid