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ISSN: 2811-2407
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DOI: 10.31248/IJAH
Start Year: 2020
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Politics of indifference: The case of Nigeria
https://doi.org/10.31248/IJAH2020.002 | Article Number: B827A0D31 | Vol.1 (1) - December 2020
Received Date: 03 November 2020 | Accepted Date: 07 December 2020 | Published Date: 30 December 2020
Author: Felix Chukwudi Onyemachi
Keywords: Indifference, inclusive politics, politics, politics of indifference
The paper aims at exposing the deep-rooted phenomenal issue of politics of indifference in the Nigerian state. The paper makes conceptual analyses of politics, indifference and politics of indifference. The paper also examines the politics of indifference in Nigeria, and identifies it as a cog in the wheel of the nation’s social, economic, political and infrastructural developments. The paper argues that Nigeria will not have the desired all-round development if the politics of indifference that segregates rather than aggregates is not dissipated. The paper, therefore, concludes that a holistic growth in all spheres of the nation’s existence will be realized in the federal, state, and local levels when the ‘we-them’ mindset that dissociates rather than associates is expunged in Nigeria. The paper employs the method of textual and contextual analyses. The procedure is essentially, expository, critical, analytical and speculative.
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