Managing Ethnic and Cultural Diversity for National Integration in Nigeria

dc.creator	Edewor, Patrick, Aluko, Y. A., Folarin, S. F.
dc.date	2014
dc.date.accessioned	2025-08-12T10:34:38Z
dc.description	Nigeria is a multi-ethnic and culturally diverse society that has witnessed conflicts arising from this ethnic and cultural diversity. This paper expounds such conceptual issues as ethnicity, cultural diversity, federalism and national integration and then presents the historical antecedents to the problems of ethnic/cultural conflicts in Nigeria. It is argued that national integration in the Nigerian context has been an attempt to forge “unity in diversity”, seeking to wish away socio-cultural differences and imposing uniformity in spite of complex cultural diversity. This has created more conflict and posed obstacles to unity, peaceful co-existence, progress and stable development. It recommends that national integration and its benefits can be realized only with the development and entrenchment of a supportive public culture; the development of new institutions and mechanisms that address poverty, revenue allocation and other national issues peacefully
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.identifier	http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/3242/
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/handle/123456789/49930
dc.language	en
dc.subject	HM Sociology
dc.title	Managing Ethnic and Cultural Diversity for National Integration in Nigeria
dc.type	Article

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