Ethnicity and Nation Building; The Nigerian Experience,1940-1983

The Book discuses the Origins of the manifestation of Ethnicity in Nigerian Politics, its accentuation and reverberations in Nigeria Civil War, 1979 and 1983 general elections.it recommends ways by which the ethnic factor could be harnessed for positive developmental strides in the Nigeria Nation-State. It also examines the interplay between ethnicity,nationhood and politics while drawing the nexus as it were, in the activities of Nigerian elite.