Jos

Jos is the capital of Plateau State, Nigeria, and has less than a million residents. Perhaps it has no ethnic or religious majority due to the historical influx of job-seekers looking toward the formerly important near-by tin mines. Nearby rurual and small town people speak Iguta or Izere.¹ Among its attractions are the National Museum, featuring terracotta sculptures of the pre second millenium Nok culture, and--as part of the Musuem of Traditional Nigerian Architecture--life sized replicas of Nigerian buildings such as the walls of Kano.

External References

old train in the National Museum

Footnotes

(1) (2) Nigeria map 2 in Raymond G. Gordon, Jr., ed., Ethnologue Languages of the World, 15th ed. (SIL International, 2005).