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Partition or Perish: Restoring Social Equilibrium in Nigeria Through Reconfiguration

Ethnic identity is central to the life of Africans.'An individual's ethnic identity helps to shape perceptions, political behavior, 2 and even personal relationships.3 Prospects of a better life, such as access to modem facilities, adequate health care, and state appointments, far too often depend on an African's ethnicity.4 Fear of exclusion from power, and by extension from the nation's wealth, is genuine and remains a major impetus for aggressive ethnic identification in most African countries.5 The fear of losing control of the machinery of government to another ethnic group reinforces the…