Exploring Ethnic Marginalisation and Indigene-Settler Problems in University Life in Nigeria

Igbafe, Eucharia Chinwe

doi:10.1155/2021/8826111

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“…In a clan, people are bounded by relatedness such as kinsmen or kindred. The term 'Clans' refers to a group of families related by blood from a shared forefather living together in an area, often considered their community [51]. This suggests that clans are knitted by blood, the descent of families and the extended family system; thus, a clan is a natural life progression from shared ancestors.…”

Section: Clan As An Indigenous Research Paradigmmentioning

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Researching African Indigenous Population in Contemporary Times: What Scholars and Practitioners Need to Know

Igbafe¹

2023

Indigenous and Minority Populations - Perspectives From Scholars and Writers Across the World

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Researching indigenous people has been characterized by debate on what indigenous knowledge systems and epistemologies should guide the research. This debate is a result of limited knowledge of who indigenous people are, and what epistemologies, philosophies, cultural values and practices that inform their physical and spiritual beliefs. There are questions on how the indigenous research paradigm and research methodology can help to provide quality research outcomes. However, these questions have deterred emerging scholars and practitioners who are interested in researching indigenous people. This chapter aimed to advance awareness of what scholars and practitioners need to know about researching indigenous people in contemporary times. An exploratory approach was used to identify, describe and discuss information from diverse publishing sites to build holistic knowledge for scholars and practitioners. The concepts that the scholars and practitioners can refer to, for an appropriate understanding of indigenous people were defined. Then, considered why the research on the indigenous population by scholars and practitioners matters. The chapter presented and discussed the indigenous research paradigm and research methodology suitable for the indigenous setting. The chapter also explored relevant human rights frameworks and the competency to guide scholars and practitioners in an indigenous setting.

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Section: Clan As An Indigenous Research Paradigmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Researching African Indigenous Population in Contemporary Times: What Scholars and Practitioners Need to Know

Igbafe¹

2023

Indigenous and Minority Populations - Perspectives From Scholars and Writers Across the World

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“…Thus, this foregoing is most prevalent in Nigeria where the vast majority of the citizens are marginalized especially, youths related marginalization. Marginalization affects the individual and the group especially the type of marginalization founded in economic, social and political dimensions where the Nigerian youths are discriminated upon, leading the vast majority of the youths to a state of hopelessness (Igbafe, 2021).…”

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2022

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This study investigates socio-economic marginalization and youths' restiveness impact on community development. The study employed content analysis with indepth literature review as methodology. Socioeconomic marginalization is the exclusion of the youth in the social and economic activities of the community and also denying them from benefiting from socioeconomic opportunities of the land. The concept of youth restiveness is the unwelcome attitude and behaviour, demonstrating violence and grievances to press home their demands, needs and aspiration. All of these impact community development which represent real change in the life of a community in terms of the people, infrastructure, the environment. Empirical literatures have investigated the nexus among socio-economic marginalization, youths' restiveness and their impact on community development and found strong correlations among the variables. Thus, socio-economic marginalization brings about youths' restiveness which in turn crops up negative impact on community development. This is validated with this studies. To reverse this trend, socioeconomic inclusion should be encouraged which will in turn eliminate restiveness of youth and bring about sustainable community development. Thus, this study concludes that, involvement of youth in social and economic activities of the community, opening opportunities for them will curb restiveness and crop up sustainable community development. Therefore, the study recommends that, there should be youth involvement in terms of participation and benefits association with the socio-economic activities of the community. This will systematically eliminate restiveness and drive community development.

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Cases in Ancestral Origins in Micro Tribes in Nigeria: The Discrimination Against Ndueze and Ewolokpo Families in Abbi, Delta State

Onoyemakpo,

Enomah,

Okwelum

2023

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The law of the 1999 Constitution which is substantially the same with the repealed 1979 Constitution has made bold attempts, addressing the overarching problem of discrimination on the basis of birth, clan, tribal and ancestral origins. Tribal and ancestral origins in Abbi have captured our attention in this study which adopts the doctrinal method. The study seeks to confront and interrogate the ethnic and ancestral basis and grounds for the fierce discrimination against Umu-Ndueze and Umu-Ewolokpo families of Echala quarters of Abbi in Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria. The drive of the study is informed by the legal methodologies through which the scrimmages are fought in courts of law without the protagonist ‘bending backwards’ to consider the evidence upon which the cases are built in the light of the brotherhood that had existed amongst the kindred families of Abbi, since time out of human memory, and the currency of the 1999 Constitution of the Federation of Nigeria on such issues. The study also underscores the evidence that the antagonists have brought to bear on the disputes in the courts in defence of the discrimination in the light of the history of Abbi which had been constructed in recent times by Abbi native writers based on traditional history and evidence and colonial intelligence reports and accounts. The study finds that deliberate attempts are being made by power elites to distort the history of Abbi people by the nature of the tendencies of the disputants and the drummers of the dance steps of the disputants have been clearly identified in Military and Civilian elites that gain prominence in the post colonial era in Abbi. Mere occupation of tribal, ancestral and kindred thrones and offices which do not yield much economic or financial transformation of the disputants cannot be said to be behind the crab-fights or kettles of fish. Abbi, in recent times, is not known to have grown its traditional and political leadership because of this tendency of power elites in self-destruction and self-deprecation. It is found that Abbi by nature is now disparate in orientation and self-divisive against the commensality that informed it earliest patriarchs’ endeavours. The discrimination against Umu-Ndueze and Umu-Ewolokpo families is largely caused by this tendency than any endemic ancestral divisions between the parties which founded the community many years ago.

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Exploring Ethnic Marginalisation and Indigene-Settler Problems in University Life in Nigeria

Cited by 3 publications

References 41 publications

Researching African Indigenous Population in Contemporary Times: What Scholars and Practitioners Need to Know

Researching African Indigenous Population in Contemporary Times: What Scholars and Practitioners Need to Know

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Cases in Ancestral Origins in Micro Tribes in Nigeria: The Discrimination Against Ndueze and Ewolokpo Families in Abbi, Delta State

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