Towards the Ideological Definition of Nigeria
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Nigeria was conceptualized as a colonial state following the Berlin Conference of 1886 that partitioned the nation as a colony of the British Empire. Upon Independence by 1960, Nigeria has come to inherit all the colonial structures of the past under a tripartite system that is concomitant with regionalism along the lines of ethnicity and religion. Since Independence, the centripetal and centrifugal forces has continued to define the identity of the Nigerian State along primordial lines and values To further exacerbate the preponderance of primordialism in the ideological framework of Nigeria, the values and principles of the foundation father's of the Nigeria nation has shown that there is need for a redefinition of Nigeria along ideological lines of development and national transformation. This paper throws open the discourse that interfaces with the ideas of the foundation father's on one hand, and the tripartite system on the other hand, and how such an interface has defined the Nigerian nation state overtime with far reaching implications and consequences for the nation building process of the nation.
Author: Prof. Uji, Wilfred Terlumun
Institution: Federal University Lafia
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7087305106
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