INTERCULTURALITY: SOLUTION TO THE DILEMMA OF ETHNICITY IN NIGERIA
INTERCULTURALITY: SOLUTION TO THE DILEMMA OF ETHNICITY IN NIGERIA

Summary/Abstract: As a dense ethnically varied society, the beauty in our diversity seems not to be maximally positioned for appreciation because the adverse effect of our ethnicity is quite glaring and profound. Amongst other factors militating our unity as a nation, ethnic and cultural identity is a strong contender. While culture is a consummate world view of a society, ethnicity is centered mostly on shared single ancestry or lineage amongst other things. Thus, even amongst culturally relative groups, ethnicity often plays out as tool for conflict amongst them. This conflict is not some simple disagreement on opinions but complex matters of superior/inferior and majority/minority appropriations of liberal and social matters. The rising trend of interculturality, if applied as a prescriptive tool, may restore unity to our society while also maintaining the identity that is so important to each group. It is therefore, the position of this paper that, interculturality carries a new order for human interactions that is capable of unifying seemingly divergent groups and orientations. Seeing that the adverse effect of ethnicity has become a threat to our corporate existence as a country, every scholarly attention it is receiving is worth it, until a sustainable solution is reached. Using a descriptive method, this paper will show how interculturality bears solution to the problem of ethnicity in Nigeria and can promote a peaceful climate and unity for further growth.

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