5/2/2023 0 Comments Primordialism![]() Usually, the result is inter-ethnic conflicts. However, this thinking usually foregrounds claims of marginalization of the minority by the majority, when the latter foists itself on the former under the guise of forging a common political identity. Thus, they argue that the so-called peoples of ethnic divide are not ontologically different and, therefore, should have the same political aspirations and objectives. ![]() Conversely, the constructivists/instrumentalists take ethnicity as a social construct, with only an instrumental value. The primordialists take the so-called ethnic groups in Nigeria as ontologically divided, leading invariably to the idea of irresolvable differences in their political aspirations and objectives. ![]() This study claims that the traditionally different understandings of ethnicity by the primordialists and the constructivists/instrumentalists foster the politics of disjunction, the divisionist bent that undermines the common cultivation of the ethos of national integration in Nigeria.
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