by James R Coffey

Created on: December 11, 2010

The Federal Republic of Nigeria is located in West Africa, bordered by the Republic of Benin on the west, Chad and Cameroon on the east, Niger on the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south. With three major ethnic groups, the Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba, Nigeria is roughly split half and half between Muslims and Christians, with a very small minority who practice indigenous religion.

The most densely populated country in Africa, Nigeria is also the most populous country in the world in which the majority of the population is black. As the largest exporter of oil in Africa, it has one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and is listed among the “Next Eleven” economies (those having the highest potential of joining the world’s largest economies in the 21st century).

On the African scale, it is a considerable regional power, where ethnocentrism, tribalism, and religious persecution play a visible role in Nigerian politics. This means that kin-selective altruism is a dominant feature of Nigerian politics, where tribalists make constant attempts to sway Federal power to a particular region. But by and large, Nigeria is a hegemony in which class distinction keeps most of the population subservient to a small group of elites, making for great disparity between the classes. But as a recent cultural examination has shown, modernity has created an even greater disparity between the sexes.

As statistics now show, Nigerian woman are perhaps the greatest users of sex toys in the world. As explained by Princess Sola Oladimeji in an article recently appearing in Nigerian World Newspaper, as chief executive officer of Oju-Ogeâ’s World, one of the more popular sex toy outlets in Nigeria, she’s witnessed first-hand the surge in the purchase of various types of sex toys in recent years. “There are a lot of women who kept several lovers before marriage and you know these men would come with various penis sizes. So when such a woman gets married, she might end up with a man who may not satisfy her in bed. But in order not to commit adultery, she would resort to sex toys. It will satisfy her and also save her marriage.”

A trend also acknowledged by marriage therapist, Funmi Akingbade, Akingbade reports that while penis size is one factor, many women who stay with their husbands are usually deprived of good sex for several other reasons. For instance, “Sometimes the man will have other women, especially the young girls

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