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Nigeria, Capitalism and the Question of Equity

The emergence of social problems in the modern capitalist system: child labour, tyrannical foremen, teeming slums, poverty, increasing crime and so on are reflections of impaired distributive system. This is because the quest for social equity is contradictory to the development of capitalism itself. This paper examines the incorporation of Nigeria into the world capitalist system and how this entrenched socio-economic and political inequity in the country. The balkanization of Africa, which gave birth to Nigeria, into colonial possessions, broke up previous political and cultural ties with th…