Fragmented Identities of Nigeria

John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji; Rotimi Omosulu

doi:10.5771/9781666905847

Summary

In Fragmented Identities of Nigeria: Sociopolitical and Economic Crises, edited by John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji and Rotimi Omosulu, readers are offered essays which explore the historiogenesis and ontological struggles of Nigeria as a geographical expression and a political experiment. The transdisciplinary contributions in this book analyze Nigeria as a microcosm of global African identity crises to address the deep-rooted conflicts within multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic, multi-religious, and multicultural societies.

By studying Nigeria as a country manufactured for the interests of colonial forces and ingrained with feudal hegemonic agendas of global powers working against the emancipation of African people, Fragmented Identities of Nigeria examines the history, evolution, and consequences of Nigeria’s sociopolitical and economic crises. The contributors make suggestions for pulling Nigeria from the brink of an identity implosion which was generated by years of misgovernance by leaders without vision or understanding of what is at stake in global black history. Throughout, the collection argues that it is time for Nigeria to reassess, renegotiate, and reimagine Nigeria’s future, whether it be through finding an amicable way the different ethnicities can continue to co-exist as federating or confederating units, or to dissolve the country which was created for economic exploitation by the United Kingdom.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-0583-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-0584-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 296
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
1. Knowledge as Foundational to Regime of Mental Magnitude No access
2. The Nature of Knowledge No access
3. The Consequences of Knowledge No access
4. Ignorance No access
5. Memory No access
6. Bad Faith No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. References No access
1. Nations and Nationalism: The Nigerian Experience No access
2. Nigeria: The Making of a Nation No access
3. Religious Nationalism as Proto-Nationalism No access
4. Religious Capitalism and the Displacement of Religious Unconscious No access
5. Conclusion: Toward a New Civic Nationalism No access
6. Notes No access
7. References No access
1. On the Concept of Nation No access
2. Traditionalist View of Nation No access
3. Modernist View of Nation No access
4. Identity Crisis No access
5. The Nature of Identity Crisis in Nigeria No access
6. Ethnic “Interidentitism” and Identity Crisis in Nigeria No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. References No access
1. The Variationist Paradigm and Related Methods No access
2. 1. Labov’s Model No access
  2. Trudgill’s Model No access
  3. Milroy and Milroy’s Model No access
  4. Boberg’s Model No access
  5. Simo Bobda’s Comparative Studies No access
  6. Adjaye’s Study No access
  7. Jibril’s Model No access
3. Data Collection and Preselected Variables No access
4. Analysis of Segmental Features No access
5. Analysis of Questionnaire No access
6. Discussion of Findings No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Note No access
9. References No access
1. The Language Situation in Nigeria and the Place of the English Language No access
2. Language as a Component of, and Vehicle for, Culture No access
3. Theoretical Framework No access
4. Linguistic and Cultural Genocide as Fallout from Nigerian Government’s Lip-Service to Policy Implementation No access
5. Bilingual Nigerians’ Inordinate Preference for English Language No access
6. The Likely Future of Nigerians’ Languages and Cultural Identities No access
7. Nigerian University Students as Potential Culture-Bearers or Culture-Killers No access
8. Statement of the Problem No access
9. Humans, Materials, and Method No access
10. Discussion of the Findings No access
11. Answering the Research Questions No access
12. Testing the Null Hypothesis No access
13. Conclusion No access
14. Recommendations No access
15. References No access
1. Double Consciousness as a Psychological Phenomenon No access
2. Fanon’s Philosophy of Double Consciousness: Navigating Issues without Boundaries No access
3. Fanon on Language: Between the Self and the Other No access
4. Toward a Transmodern Cultural Identity No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. References No access
1. Research Methods and Data No access
2. Nigerian Federalism and Ethno-Religious Issues No access
3. Ethnicity and Ethnic Nationalities No access
4. Religious Fundamentalism No access
5. Nigerian Federalism and Ethno-Religious Issues No access
6. Findings and Discussion No access
7. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
8. References No access
1. Evaluating “Dance” and “National Festival of Arts and Culture (NAFEST)” No access
2. Conclusion No access
3. References No access
1. The Emergence of Colonial Urban Centers in Nigeria and the Implications No access
2. Ethnic Associations in Colonial Urban Centers as Markers of Identity No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. References No access
1. Culture, Society, Change, and Yorùbá Films No access
2. Women as Leaders in Yorùbá Traditional Films No access
3. Women as Leaders in Contemporary Yorùbá Films No access
4. Recurrent Issues in Yorùbá Films on Women and Leadership No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
7. References No access
8. Videography No access
1. 1. Polemics of Identity in Self-Writing: Biography, Autobiography, Prison Notes, and Memoir No access
2. The Patriarch: Pa Josiah, the Archetypal Grandfather No access
3. Intergenerational Impact: The Interventionist, The Opposition Diplomat, and Advocate for the Other Generation No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. References No access
1. Background No access
2. The Socio-cultural Dimension to the Justification of Human Knowledge No access
3. Conceptualizing and Interrogating the Notion of African Indigenous Epistemology No access
4. Dislocating the Universalist Thesis in Epistemic Justification No access
5. Language as Expression of Cultural Reality No access
6. Reconstructing Indigenous African Epistemic Systems “against” Universalism No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. References No access
1. Vocational Devotion No access
2. Concept of Indigenous Vocational Education No access
3. Some Vocations/Trades in the Indigenous Society No access
4. Modes of Vocational Training in the Indigenous Society No access
5. Job Prospect of Indigenous Vocational Education Graduates No access
6. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
7. References No access
1. The 1914 Amalgamation Fiat No access
2. Theoretical Framework No access
3. History of Ethnicity and Electoral Contest in Nigeria No access
4. Ethnicity and Presidential Elections in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic 1999 Presidential Election No access
5. 2003 Presidential Election No access
6. 2007 Presidential Election No access
7. 2011 Presidential Election No access
8. Summary of Findings No access
9. Conclusion No access
10. References No access
1. Modes of Interpretation No access
2. Symbols: Meaning and Nature No access
3. Images No access
4. Stereotypes No access
5. Values No access
6. Sources of Values No access
7. Sources of Yoruba Values No access
8. The Environment No access
9. Relationship between Values and the Environment No access
10. Yoruba Values and the Environment No access
11. Modes of Interpretation and Values (Ethics) in Yoruba Religion No access
12. Conclusion No access
13. References No access
Index No access Pages 289 - 292
About the Contributors No access Pages 293 - 296