Majority-tribe privilege is the advantage the Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, and Yoruba enjoy as members of the three big ethnic groups in the country. The mighty advantage of belonging to one of the Big Three, the Wa-Zo-Bia groups, is both unconscious and conscious. For those who enjoy being part of the big tribes, the advantage is unseen to (majority of) them, but it is highly visible to the rest of us that belong to the minority tribes. When national public officials and the media list ethnicities in Nigeria and routinely name Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, and Yoruba, without bothering to mention even one minority tribe, you are reminded that Nigeria is wazobia and the country does not regard your existence. Minority-tribe persons grate under their skin when they hear Wazobia, a portfolio word that reminds them of their exclusion, marginalisation, and irrelevance in the general description of what Nigerian citizenship means. With the way the 2023 elections have become a three-tribe affair, you would be forgiven for thinking they are the only ones in the country.
Majority-tribe privilege is the advantage the Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, and Yoruba enjoy as members of the three big ethnic groups in the country. The mighty advantage of belonging to one of the Big Three, the Wa-Zo-Bia groups, is both unconscious and conscious. For those who enjoy being part of the big tribes, the advantage is unseen to them, but it is highly visible to the rest of us that belong to the minority tribes.
Now, many members of the Big-Three would say that they are never aware of such a privilege accruing to them. They are right, because an integral part of this privilege is the lack of awareness of their size advantage, or that they hold more power than the minorities. They are the groups with dominant power in the Nigerian politico-economic space and they can take theirfor granted, unlike the minorities.
Majority-tribe privilege is the avoidance of the humiliation of your identity constantly being erased or violently distorted. Often when members of one of the Big-Three meet a minority from one of the regions of the other two, they quickly chalk them down as a member of two tribes other than theirs. Often, every minority in the North is a Hausa/Fulani. Anyone from the former Eastern region is Igbo, and anyone from the former Western Nigeria is a Yoruba.
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