Igbo Community Living: A Critical Option for the Quest for Restructuring Nigeria

Kingsley Okoro*

Kingsley Okoro*

Volume4-Issue4
Dates: Received: 2023-03-01 | Accepted: 2023-04-28 | Published: 2023-04-30
Pages: 837-848

Abstract

The clamour for socio-political restructuring of Nigeria has reached its climax, hence scholars of diverse field have engaged themselves in the debate, resulting to barrage of extant literatures. The major concentration of these literatures is the socio-political and economic restructuring, which may lead to regionalization, resource control and/or secession. The current work envisions some hiccups in this model and opt for an alternative restructuring paradigm that will address the fundamental questions of human life, integrity and social justice. In adopting socio-anthropological and historical methods, this work took serious survey of extant literatures in form of archival, internet materials and books on Igbo community living. It therefore, discovers that the socio-political restructuring will not solve the problem of ethnicity, religious politics and bigotry. Hence it concludes that a viable option for Nigeria restructuring is moral, values and mental restructuring/orientations via Igbo community living archetype.

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Okoro K. Igbo Community Living: A Critical Option for the Quest for Restructuring Nigeria. J Biomed Res Environ Sci. 2023 Apr 30; 4(4): 837-848. doi: 10.37871/jbres1741, Article ID: JBRES1741, Available at: https://www.jelsciences.com/articles/ jbres1741.pdf

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