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Cote D Ivore In Nigeria

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Since her independence in 1960, Nigeria has contributed immensely towards the promotion of peace and security in Africa, especially in the West African sub-region through various peace talks and interventions in conflicts in the continent and the sub-region. Nigeria has been part of peace missions and conflict resolutions organized at the global level by the United Nations, at the regional level by the African Union and at the sub-regional level by the Economic Community of West African States. She intervened in the two conflicts which erupted in Cote d’Ivoire between 2002 and 2012. Nigeria was one of the initial countries that gave total solidarity and support to the government and people of Cote d’Ivoire. Nigeria’s intervention in the Ivorian …show more content…

As a multi-ethnic society, Cote d’Ivoire has over 60 ethnic groups. The major ethnic groups are the Mandes in the West and the Northwest; the voltaic in the Northeast; the Krahn in the Southwest, the Akans in the southeast (Akindes, 2004). The failure of the elite to build a cohesive Ivorian national identity has remained a security threat to Cote d’Ivoire (Bakary, 1997). The threat posed by ethnicity was, according to Daddieh (2001:15) “derived from the system of ethnic stratification based on an alleged methodology that ranked the ethnic groups in order of superiority.” This, he said “placed the Mande first, followed by the Akan and Krahn, a development that changed the ethno-religious balance and threatened the perceived interests of the elites.” Daddieh (2001) however, note that this classification was redefined by the Akan group that dominated the Ivorian political class after independence, placing them at the top, followed by the Mandes and …show more content…

Riehl (2007:34) defines it as “a nationalist dogma based on a condition of “pure” Ivorian ancestry in order to enjoy political rights.” Bouah, an ethno-sociologist cited in (Akindes, 2004:27), defines the socio-cultural foundations of Ivorite as a “set of socio-historical, geographical and linguistic data which enables us to say that an individual is a citizen of Cote d’Ivoire or an Ivorian. The person who asserts his “Ivorite” is supposed to have Cote d’Ivoire as his country, born of Ivorian parents belonging to one of the ethnic groups native to Cote

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