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Title: | Institutionalised Marginality, Social Conflicts and the Quest for National Unity in an African Nation-State: A Theoretical Exploration |
Author: | Ujomu, Philip Ogo |
Year: | 2003 |
Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 3-4 |
Pages: | 22-35 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Nigeria West Africa |
Subjects: | ethnicity popular participation nation building nation Ethnic and Race Relations Economics and Trade Politics and Government nationalism sociology Marginalism Social conflict society |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24482693 |
Abstract: | This article focuses on the issue of marginality, marginalization and the quest for national unity. Although the issue of marginalization in an African nation-State such as Nigeria has been widely discussed by writers, few have attempted to offer a systematic analysis of the issue through a theoretical or conceptual basis. The article examines the extent to which the competition for resources and the exercise of political control have compelled the marginalization of various ethnic groups and segments of Nigerian society. It highlights the evolving nature and different expressions of marginalization. By looking at the issue of marginality and the social order in Nigeria against the backdrop of the brutal facts of injustice, inequality and exploitation, the author seeks to discern the epochal configurations and sociocultural locations of the problem. He examines how this problem has militated against the quest for national integration and reconciliation in the polity. By highlighting the attendant crisis of social order occasioned by marginalization, the article reinforces the need for the urgent establishment of enduring humane rules of distributive justice in the society. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |