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Sociological Implications of Communal and Ethno-Religious Clashes in New Democratic Nigeria

This paper examined the ethno-religious and communal clashes that have bedeviled Nigeria since the inauguration of the present democratic government in May 1999. Using Marx’s conflict perspective, the paper argued that these clashes and conflicts are in-built in socio-economic and political arrangements of post - colonial Nigeria. However with the renewed attempt to democratize the polity, struggle for political and economic space has intensified between and among the various religious groups and ethnics nationalities at the community, state and national levels thereby making these clashes ine…