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Title: | Language, National Integration and Nigeria Federation |
Author: | Joshua, Adebayo A. |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Humanities Review Journal |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 93-100 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | nation building Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Ethnic and Race Relations nationalism Law, Human Rights and Violence |
Abstract: | The lack of any true national integration in Nigeria is traceable to the belief and conduct of the elite class represented in the various ethnic groups that make up Nigeria. The masses believe in their various elite classes to the level of misnomer, while the elite, on the other hand, use their position to consolidate their own gains. In addition, the government exercises power in an intentionally exclusive manner, with emphasis on the dominant and subordinate structures in the society. In a situation like this, the search for true unity and national integration would have no end. There is no loyalty to the nation any more, except complex ethnic or sectional loyalties. However, the beginning for the achievement of a true federation is to allow the political objectives, as enshrined in the constitution, to be the guiding principle of any government. Failure to uphold and put into practice the constitutional provisions on the promotion of national integration means that Nigeria will remain very much in the woods. Bibliogr., online sum. [Journal abstract] |