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Title:Ethnic identity and the problem of national integration in Nigeria
Author:Okita, S.I.O.
Year:1987
Periodical:Nigeria Magazine
Volume:55
Issue:3
Pages:61-65
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:ethnicity
nation building
Abstract:After exploring the concept of ethnic identity as a social phenomenon, the author examines the problem of national integration - 'unity in diversity' - and nation-building in Nigeria. Ethnicity, because it can be used as a unifying ideology, is capable of being used to define, advance, and protect group interests and ensure its own survival. It thus has a great destabilizing potential in a multiethnic State such as Nigeria. Nevertheless, a State that has the will to promote the material and social welfare of the society in general and to ensure a minimum level of material wellbeing for its citizens will create both a stable basis for its own survival and the minimum psychological condition to enable a sense of identity, loyalty and belonging. Note, ref.
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