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Psychiatry in Nigeria

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Oye Gureje
Oye Gureje*
Affiliation:
University of Ibadan, Nigeria, email [email protected]
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Nigeria is a huge country. It covers an area of 924 000 km2 on the west coast of Africa. It has a population of about 110 million, which means that every one in six Africans is a Nigerian. It is a country of diverse ethnicity, with over 200 spoken languages, even though three of those are spoken by about 60% of the population. Administratively, it is divided into 36 states and operates a federal system of government, with constitutional responsibilities allocated to the various tiers of government – central, state and local. There are two main religions, Islam (predominantly in the north) and Christianity (predominantly in the south). However, a large proportion of the people still practise traditional religions exclusively or in addition to either Islam or Christianity.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , October 2003 , pp. 10 - 12
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