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UGBEM, Confort E. (2013) The Social Relations of Identity Construction and Reconstruction among Ethnic Groups in Benue State, Nigeria
Abstract In Nigeria, ethnic identity occupies a salient position as it is usually mobilized for group action leading to violent and non-violent contests to establish or protect their supremacy. This study aimed at examining the social processes of ethnic identity construction and reconstruction in Benue state. On the basis of focus group discussions, in-depth interviews and archival research, the study shows that ethnic pre-colonial identities were reconstructed to a Hausa identity by the (...)
ANIMASAWUN, Gbemisola A. (2013) Godfatherism in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic: The Pyramid of Violence and Political Insecurity in Ibadan, Oyo-State, Nigeria
Abstract Godfatherism based on a patron-client relationship has emerged as a phenomenon hindering participation, political security and peace as it torpedoes the consolidation of democracy since Nigeria’s fourth republic commenced in 1999. Widespread political violence created insecurity whenever the godsons failed to fulfil pledges made to their godfathers especially on the allotment of appointments and sometimes sharing of state resources amongst others in many states of the country. It (...)
Jonathan C. MADU (2013). Peace through Equity: The Political Economy of Gender Discrimination in Land Property Rights in Enugu State, Nigeria
Abstract Conflicts over land in Africa have continued to be severe because of their scarcity in context of population growth, climatic change and as they are increasingly being commoditized. In another dimension, gender construction impacts differently on men’s and women’s access to land resource in most Nigerian traditional institutions, resulting to serious (gendered) social conflicts because this determines their opportunities for livelihoods or their impoverishment. This, on the other (...)
Guillaume THIERY (2010). Les territoires de l’opposition au Nigeria
Si la possibilité pour un parti politique de l’opposition d’accéder au pouvoir à l’échelle fédérale semble encore aujourd’hui assez mince au Nigeria, la continuité de « familles » politiques (de l’AG à l’AC ou du NEPU au PRP) à travers les périodes de régimes militaires et civils, sans jamais accéder au pouvoir central, démontre si besoin était l’enracinement du multipartisme nigérian. D’autre part, la possibilité d’appliquer au moins pour partie sa politique à l’échelle locale, mais aussi d’accéder à une partie (...)
DALHATU SANI YOLA* (2010). Forms And Perspectives On Nigeria’s 1960 Independence Celebrations: Kano State Experience
Department of Political Science - Faculty of Social Sciences - Ahmadu Bello University Zaria - dalhatuyola@yahoo.co.uk
ABSTRACT This study assesses the mood of select social categories in Kano State with respect to Nigeria’s 1960 independence. Proceeding with the suggestion that the celebrations were underscored by hopes and subdued concerns, the study also investigated the perspectives of grass root elements about independence in 1960 and now 50 years later. During the survey, primary data was generated through specialised interviews and focus group discussions with individuals and groups purposively (...)
Eyene OKPANACHI (2010). Ethno-religious Identity and Conflict in Northern Nigeria: Understanding the Dynamics of Sharia in Kaduna and Kebbi States
Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
This study examines the relationship between the Sharia law, identity and conflict in Nigeria. This development is studied within the context of Kaduna and Kebbi states. The study investigates in historical and empirical manner the implication of the Sharia policy for the formation/transformation of the identities of the different ethno-religious groups within the two states; the ways in which the ethno-religious groups have shaped their own identity in response to the Sharia policy; the (...)
Maud GAUQUELIN (2010). Les Tchadiens évangéliques au Nigeria
Histoire missionnaire de la Sudan United Mission, migration Moundang et violence évangélique
Gauquelin (2010). Les Tchadiens évangéliques au Nigeria ABSTRACT. In Nigeria, many researchers have been studying the ambivalent relations between so-called "Evangelical" and Protestant Pentecostal missions on the one hand and converted local populations on the other hand. The aim of this article is to examine the connection between the missionary history of a Western Protestant enterprise, the Sudan United Mission, with a Chadian population that migrated to Nigeria during the 20th century, (...)
“Social History in West Africa: Addictions to Alcohol and Drugs in Urban Environments”
Emmanuel AKYEAMPONG (2010)
Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong from the Department of History at Harvard University (USA) has delivered a lecture at the University of Ibadan the 28th of January. This lecture was entitled “Social History in West Africa: Addictions to Alcohol and Drugs in Urban Environments”. Here follows the transcript.
"Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians" (Sonnô-Jôi) : Japan and Western Imperialism from 1853 to 1905
Nathalie KOUAME (2010)
Dr Nathalie Kouamé, senior lecturer at the French Institut National des langues et Civilisations Orientales (Paris) and specialist of the history of Japan before 1868, has given three lectures in Nigeria (Lagos, Kano and Ibadan) in January 2010. Here follows the transcript of this lecture entitled “Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians” (Sonnô-Jôi) : Japan and Western Imperialism from 1853 to 1905”. _ KOUAME, N. 2010. "Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians" (Sonnô-Jôi) : Japan and (...)
Oiling Regional Insecurity? The Implications of the Niger Delta Crisis for Security and Stability in the Gulf of Guinea and West Africa
Charles UKEJE (2008)
Since ‘Oil Policy in the Gulf of Guinea: Security and Conflict, Economic Growth and Social Development’ (Traub-Merz and Yates, 2004), the regional complexities and implications of the deepening crisis in Nigeria’s volatile Niger Delta region has drawn lesser attention in scholarship. This paper argues that the dangerous twist of events in Nigeria’s delta- notably the June 2008 surprise attack on Shell-operated Bonga offshore oil platform located deep into the Atlantic Ocean- has turned the Gulf (...)
IFRA CONFERENCE ON CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA
Proceedings of the 2009 Conference in Zaria (Clément Boutillier ed.)
From the 16th to the 19th of November 2009, The French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA Nigeria) in collaboration with the Institute for Development Research (A.B.U., Zaria) has organised a conference to conclude its research programme on “Conflict and violence in Nigeria”. While the focus of the research programme was predominantly political, its approach was resolutely interdisciplinary. Here follow the abstracts of the papers presented as well as the full proceedings of the (...)
NAIJA: Proceedings of the “Conference on Nigerian Pidgin
University of Ibadan, Nigeria. 8-9 July, 2009
IFRA (Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique) organised a conference on Nigeria Pidgin in the Conference Center of the University of Ibadan, on the 8th and 9th of July, 2009. This conference proposed to explore the various dimensions of Naijá (hitherto known as Nigerian Pidgin), and set the foundation for the Naijá Project aiming at producing a reference grammar, a dictionary and a teaching method for Naijá. Below are papers that were presented at the conference. C. Ailende ATIVIE [1]. (...)
Maud GAUQUELIN. Understand the "Jos Crisis" in Nigeria
EHESS-IFRA (2009)
At first, the " Jos crisis", as Nigerian and foreign media have named it, seems complex and confusing. It is however possible to untangle the reasons for this explosion of violence that took place on 27 and 28 November 2008 in the capital of Plateau State, North of Nigeria. Early December 2008, interviewed by RFI, Daniel C. Bach stated that the main cause of these clashes is to be found in the unequal right to "indigeneity" between the Beroms and Hausas in Plateau State. The distinction (...)
