Ijaw Essays

Racism and ethnicism serve the same purpose: that of bias in favour of their kind. The only difference is that racism is more associated with colour ( ie white, black and so on ); ethnicism deals with the ethnic and cultural roots. Ideally, one will not be writing about racism in Nigeria where we all have a uniform black color, but a personal experience a few years back make this imperative. We also impose racism upon ourselves. When you reason that one colour is better than the other, you are thinking

Boko Harams members come from the Kanuri ethnic group, which makes up 4% of Nigeria’s 167 million population. Nigeria is a country filled with many ethnic and religious groups. The major ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, Igbo, Ijaw, Kanuri, Ibibio, and Tiv. Nigerian people are divided between ethno-linguistic and religious groups. Broadly speaking, the Hausa-Fulani people in northern Nigeria are predominately Muslim. Whereas the Yoruba’s of southwest Nigeria are Muslim and Christian

EFFECTS OF SLAVE TRADE ON CHRISTIAN MISSION, A CASE STUDY OF YORUBA LAND/BADAGRY INTRODUCTION The history of introducing Christianity into West African coast is tied to other developments which affect the West African people either negatively or positively. The same people who came with the gospel came in with other things including slave trade, which have effects on the West Africans especially the Yoruba tribe. While differentiating between slavery and slave trade, Janneh opines that the term slavery

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to study the Niger Delta conflict and contribute to the ongoing debates on greed vs. grievance thesis as to the cause of the Niger Delta conflict. To begin with, the central focus of this study is to determine whether greed and grievance factors has a link to the conflict or are applicable to explaining the causes of the conflict. The study adopts resource conflict debate as the anchor of the research but greed vs. grievance theory stands for the analytical and

Chapter Two ANYOGU’S CULTURAL HISTORY AND ANCESTORS Daun Juan – LXXXI 11 … ship off the holy three to Senegal and ask them how they like to be in thrall. The Lord Byron 1807 Most Ibo speaking people claim to have originated from at least two deities. The Onitsha people claim at least five deity origins whilst the UmuEzeAroli tribe of Onitsha claim to have originated from seven deities with inferences of nobility and linage. This chapter seeks to explain and tell the story of linage and nobility

MGBEMENE U. STANLEY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF CONFLICT: MCM 805 TOPIC: FIRST SEMESTER FINAL PAPER MATRIC NO.: 139062065 DATE: 09/05/2015 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAMS (NUMBER ONE) INTRODUCTION The two social systems that the paper will dwell on are the Niger Delta and the Chevron Oil Company. Here we discuss the various social systems to briefly bring out there history, believe system and values in terms of our paper. The research will also bring out the factors that led to the two social systems’

EVALUATION RESEARCH DESIGNS 1. Policy-Oriented Evaluation Design Policy-oriented evaluation research design refers to studies embarked on for the purpose of generating change in existing educational policies and practices. Policy-oriented evaluation design is adopted for critical examination of the efficacy or effectiveness of existing policy with a view to providing relevant information for making of new policy or modifying existing policy, monitoring and implementing it. This design is often adopted