Obnoxious Labels as Language of Class Struggle in Nigeria: The Igbo Experience
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Obnoxious Labels as derogatory language have some truths Nigeriansespecially the Igbo have not set free. The essay identifies somediscriminatory practices and postures of intolerance, occasioned by linguistic,religious, gender, and ethnic related sentiments as being reinforced byrevivals of primordial differentiations occasioned by the politics of identity.Moreover, prejudice is even being intellectualized and rationalized, such thatthe society itself appears to become a training ground for future practitionersof discriminations in Igbo society. In as much as these obnoxious termsdetermine social cohesion, filial obligation and the emergence of genuinedemocratic Igbo society, it becomes urgent to confront the class struggle andthe recourse to obnoxious labels in a more pragmatic way through education,mobilization and transformation.
Source: African Research Review
Author: OOC Uche
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2028093010