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Conflicts of Identities in Nigeria

Authors: OLOMOJOBI Yinka

Publication Type: Journal article

Journal: Journal Of International Politics And Development

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The Central Intelligence Agency – America’s foremost intelligence organisation made a prediction that Nigeria will become unstitched in 2015. In this article, I analyze and explain factors that are obstructing nation building in Nigeria. I concede that ethnic identities are the strongest factor in delimiting nation building. However, I also acknowledge that other inextricably interwoven factors such as deprivation and regional division hamper Nigeria’s quest for nation-building. Aside from these factors, I strongly argue that different religious identities are the main generative element in hampering Nigeria’s national solidarity.

However, I further argue that the conceptualization of primordialism is useful in understanding the construction of religion as the main identity marker of northern Nigerian Muslims whilst ethnicity acts as an identity marker in southern Nigeria. I argue that these identities describe the bond and overarching solidarity of Nigeria which is based on historical trajectories.

Although, it has been argued that primordial attachments will wither with modernity, in societies such as Nigeria, primordial life styles and ideology form the basis of their national identity. I illustrate that religious primordialism in Nigeria is prevalent due to fact that primordial attachment to an identity preceded the formation of the structure of the Nigerian state.

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OLOMOJOBI,Y. . (2014). Conflicts of Identities in Nigeria, 12 (), 47-47.

OLOMOJOBI,Y. . "Conflicts of Identities in Nigeria" 12, no (), (2014): 47-47.

OLOMOJOBI,Y. and . (2014). Conflicts of Identities in Nigeria, 12 (), pp47-47.

OLOMOJOBIY, . Conflicts of Identities in Nigeria. 2014, 12 ():47-47.

OLOMOJOBI,Yinka , . "Conflicts of Identities in Nigeria", 12 . (2014) : 47-47.

O.Yinka , "Conflicts of Identities in Nigeria" vol.12, no., pp. 47-47, 2014.

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