R T Akinyele
Biographic Data
| ID | 204561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R T Akinyele |
| GIVEN NAMES | R T |
| FAMILY NAME | Akinyele |
| SIGNATURE | AKINYELE R T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lagos |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lagos is our land
Who owns Lagos and how does one become a Lagosian? Is it through nativity or residency? The rate of migration into Lagos has earned the city the appellation of a no-man’s land. The Awori (a sub-group of the Yoruba) who founded Lagos now constitute about one third of the population. This study examines the protest of influential Awori of Lagos against the political domination of metropolitan Lagos and Lagos State by outsiders, using the platform o…
Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics
Ethnic Militancy and National Stability in Nigeria
Nigeria is a deeply divided country, whether the yardstick for measuring the plurality is religious, ethnic or geographical. The aggressive pursuit of the principle of self‐determination has resulted in the formation of ethnic militias, the existence of which raises several questions: Is the existence of ethnic militias compatible with democracy, or a negation of it? What threat do they pose to the unity and stability of Nigeria? Is the blanket b…
Power-sharing and Conflict Management in Africa
The nature of conflicts in Africa has continued to attract the attention of scholars. This is largely because most of the violent conflicts currently witnessed in the world are taking place on the continent. This article attributes the ethnic character of most of the conflicts to the capacity of ethnicity to modify or feed on other forms of conflicts. Using Nigeria, Sudan and Rwanda as case studies, the article proposes the adoption of Rotational…
States Creation in Nigeria
In Nigeria, state creation was originally conceived as a solution to the problems of ethnic minority groups. Louis Wirth (Hepburn 1978, 1) defined an ethnic minority group as a group of people who because of their physical or cultural characteristics, "are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination." Stavenhagen (1…
A Western Niger province or constitutional safeguards
One of the problems of nation building in Nigeria is the role and respect to be accorded to the different ethnic groups to make them function as integral parts of a natural society. The main issues revolve around the fear of ethnic domination. This article argues against the popular view which attributes the genesis of minority problems in Nigeria to the adoption of the Federal system of government and the subsequent regionalization of the source…
States Creation in Nigeria
In Nigeria, state creation was originally conceived as a solution to the problems of ethnic minority groups. Louis Wirth (Hepburn 1978, 1) defined an ethnic minority group as a group of people who because of their physical or cultural characteristics, "are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination." Stavenhagen (1…
Ethnic Militancy and National Stability in Nigeria
Nigeria is a deeply divided country, whether the yardstick for measuring the plurality is religious, ethnic or geographical. The aggressive pursuit of the principle of self‐determination has resulted in the formation of ethnic militias, the existence of which raises several questions: Is the existence of ethnic militias compatible with democracy, or a negation of it? What threat do they pose to the unity and stability of Nigeria? Is the blanket b…
Power-sharing and Conflict Management in Africa
The nature of conflicts in Africa has continued to attract the attention of scholars. This is largely because most of the violent conflicts currently witnessed in the world are taking place on the continent. This article attributes the ethnic character of most of the conflicts to the capacity of ethnicity to modify or feed on other forms of conflicts. Using Nigeria, Sudan and Rwanda as case studies, the article proposes the adoption of Rotational…
A Western Niger province or constitutional safeguards
One of the problems of nation building in Nigeria is the role and respect to be accorded to the different ethnic groups to make them function as integral parts of a natural society. The main issues revolve around the fear of ethnic domination. This article argues against the popular view which attributes the genesis of minority problems in Nigeria to the adoption of the Federal system of government and the subsequent regionalization of the source…
States Creation in Nigeria
In Nigeria, state creation was originally conceived as a solution to the problems of ethnic minority groups. Louis Wirth (Hepburn 1978, 1) defined an ethnic minority group as a group of people who because of their physical or cultural characteristics, "are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination." Stavenhagen (1…
Power-sharing and Conflict Management in Africa
The nature of conflicts in Africa has continued to attract the attention of scholars. This is largely because most of the violent conflicts currently witnessed in the world are taking place on the continent. This article attributes the ethnic character of most of the conflicts to the capacity of ethnicity to modify or feed on other forms of conflicts. Using Nigeria, Sudan and Rwanda as case studies, the article proposes the adoption of Rotational…
Ethnic Militancy and National Stability in Nigeria
Nigeria is a deeply divided country, whether the yardstick for measuring the plurality is religious, ethnic or geographical. The aggressive pursuit of the principle of self‐determination has resulted in the formation of ethnic militias, the existence of which raises several questions: Is the existence of ethnic militias compatible with democracy, or a negation of it? What threat do they pose to the unity and stability of Nigeria? Is the blanket b…
Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics
Lagos is our land
Who owns Lagos and how does one become a Lagosian? Is it through nativity or residency? The rate of migration into Lagos has earned the city the appellation of a no-man’s land. The Awori (a sub-group of the Yoruba) who founded Lagos now constitute about one third of the population. This study examines the protest of influential Awori of Lagos against the political domination of metropolitan Lagos and Lagos State by outsiders, using the platform o…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Global Political and Social Dynamics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · State (computer science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)