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Writing a compendium into cultural aspects of ways of life of people can be crucial in making valuable assessments of processes of change. Getting to understand and underscore culture in a broad conceptual framework helps us to interpret what things mean to different cultures and places. Nigeria: Ethnicity, Peoples and Cultures present fifteen (15) chapters with each chapter offering their own particular take on Ethnicity, Peoples and Cultures of Nigeria provoking new debate, opening up new areas of research and questioning conventional assumptions. The author has presented in the book multiple meanings of culture as representation, as discourse, as practice, as a product, as action and as an explanation. The author has successfully utilized her experience as a university teacher in writing the text while the scope of the book can clearly be judged from its table of contents; it will be worthwhile to note some of its principal features by going through the entire text. From the introductory chapter that deals with the geographical and historical location of Nigeria, the text is designed and written with a mind of confronting students with the challenge of correctly understanding the basic principle of people’s and culture of Nigeria. The text is of high quality and well structured for university students, students of other higher institutions and other readership beyond the use of students for adequate knowledge of Nigeria and its people.