THE CHALLENGES AND SURVIVAL STRATEGIES OF MINORITY ETHNIC GROUPS IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN SOCIETY: A STUDY OF SOME SELECTED ETHNIC GROUPS OF MIDDLE-BELT REGION, NIGERIA

Kaze Akwanga Bashama, Anche Ugah Sabo, Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed

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This research work is a survey of the current situation of minority ethnic groups in Nigeria. The travails and struggles of ethnic minority communities in Nigeria are to guard against both cultural extinctions, socio-political and economic marginalization. These have taken a centre stage in the Nigerian polity, attract the attention of scholars and formed part of Nigeria’s historiography. This is concerning the wider dimensions and conditions of ethnic minority alienation and discontent in Nigerian federalism. Actually, in a fundamental sense, the problem of Nigeria's ethnic minorities has resulted directly from specific contradictions and tensions in the evolution and operation of the Nigerian federal system. Several aspects of this federalist crisis can be readily identified. They include the over-centralization of the government system; the inadequate recognition of the country's ethnic configuration in the territorial organization of the federation; the relatively limited development of accommodative consensual or power-sharing mechanism; the lack of equal representation in governance, etc. The purpose of this study is to discuss the challenges of the minority groups and their survival strategies, particularly of the middle-belt region (central) of the Nigerian state. The research work examined the challenges of the minorities group and how they can strategize to survive in our Nigeria contemporary times.

Keywords


Minority, marginalization, middle-belt, Nigeria, minority ethnic groups.

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