International records / OpenAlex research

The state and nation-building in Nigeria: Challenges in the Democratic Era, 1999-2024

The process of state and nation-building in Nigeria is complex and ongoing. Though the Nigerian State evolved as the product of British imperialism, all efforts to create a nation out of the disparate people forcefully brought together by the colonialists have remained elusive. This study relied on documentary evidence to examine the challenges confronting and frustrating the process of nation-building in Nigeria. The theories of cultural primordialism and instrumentalism were adopted as the framework of analysis. It was established that the trajectory of nation-building has been on, Nigeria h…