Notable historian, Prof. Toyin Falola,
has warned that Nigeria will not develop fully with the continued
sentiment its citizens attach ethnicity.
According to Falola, ethnicity has become “a well-entrenched bias” expressed by many Nigerians.
Falola, who teaches History at the
University of Texas, United States, stated.....
this while delivering the
50th anniversary lecture of the History department of the University of
Lagos.
In a paper entitled “Ethnicity: Its Organ
and Intestine”, the academic noted that ethnicity had become embedded
in the psyches of Nigerians that it would be difficult to wipe it out
from their consciousness.
An average Nigerian, according to him, sees himself more as first belonging to his ethnic cleavage before being a Nigerian.
The historian, who said that the
development was affecting the nation’s development negatively, noted
that it had also affected its resource distribution and power equation.
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