Beyond 250: Forging One Nigerian Identity from Many Traditions

Forging One Nigerian Identity from Many Traditions

Beyond 250 is a forensic investigation of Nigeria's cultural plurality. Not a tourism brochure, but an autopsy of institutional neglect: from the 250+ ethnic groups that share a territory the size of Venezuela, to the Afrobeats revolution that the Ministry of Culture did not forecast, to the 540 languages recognised in policy but starved in budget. Written with the precision of an investigative journalist and the passion of someone who has watched a masquerade in Anambra and an Afrobeats concert in Lagos on the same weekend. Every claim is anchored to named sources with dates. Every gap is named as evidence of institutional opacity.