Ifeanyi Onwuzuruigbo
Biographic Data
| ID | 81669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ifeanyi Onwuzuruigbo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ifeanyi |
| FAMILY NAME | Onwuzuruigbo |
| SIGNATURE | ONWUZURUIGBO I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ibadan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0623-9947 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Checkpoints and the Management of Insecurity in Southwestern Nigeria
In the face of growing insecurity, checkpoints have become vital instruments in management of insecurity in Nigeria. Security checkpoints are best understood as designated areas, lines, or points of contact along a road or border where individuals and vehicles are subject to checks. Extant studies concentrate more on the politics of checkpoints mounted by non-state actors, particularly in northern Nigeria. Checkpoints manned by state security for…
Checkpoint Politics, Cross-Border Exchanges, and Nigeria’s 2019 Border Closure Policy
Aggressive smuggling of agricultural and petroleum products, automobiles, fabrics, and firearms underscores the motivation for Nigeria’s border-closure policy instituted in August 2019. The dominant opinion, particularly that of the official government analysts, assessed the policy as successful, even before thoroughly evaluating its performance. Existing studies on borders and cross-border relations in Africa have focused on colonial cartography…
Cultural hegemony and ethnic minority struggles in Nigeria
This study explores the plight of ethnic minorities and marginals and their increasing quest to obliterate their subordinate status and attempts by the dominant groups to maintain the status quo in Nigeria. Such interactions have induced resistance and increasingly stimulated questions of insecurity. Extant explanations of ethnic hegemony have mainly focused on describing and analysing the phenomenon with the attendant socio-political, economic, …
No Patience, no Goodluck
African First Ladies are categorised into two: the less powerful First Ladies, the behind-the-scene actors, making positive contributions to their spouses’ regime and the powerful First Ladies whose arbitrary powers and overarching presence pose real threat to the regime. Extant studies concentrate on the former and pay scant attention to the latter. Drawing on the activities of Patience Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s former First Lady, this paper …
The Role of Nigeria's Correctional Service and its Effectiveness in Rehabilitating Offenders
This study investigated the effectiveness of Nigeria's Correctional Service in rehabilitating offenders, with a focus on Kuje Correctional Center, Abuja. The central problem addressed is the high rate of recidivism and whether the rehabilitation programmes are effective in reducing this trend. The purpose of the study was to assess the types of rehabilitation programmes available, their effectiveness, and the challenges faced in implementing thes…
Coalition or Government of National Unity? Critical reflections on the 2024 elections in South Africa
This paper examines the 2024 general elections in South Africa which was reminiscent of the 1994 electoral ecology in terms of the high stakes. The pre- and post-election ecology of the recent elections exhibited characteristics of Key's critical elections, given the depth and intensity of involvement. With a 40.18% voter share, the African National Congress's (ANC) 30-year electoral dominance was over, thereby making a coalition government at th…
Understanding the 2022 Kenyan presidential election outcome
The ethnicisation of election and the concomitant diffusion of violence has been widely explored in the literature on Kenyan presidential elections. However, the critical character of the elections has been understudied, especially as it concerns the depth and intensity of involvement occasioned by the realignment of political actors. Oftentimes, this has resulted in the emergence of fundamental changes in power dynamics. This study drew insights…
Citizenship, Indigeneity and the Management of Herders and Farmers Conflicts in Ghana and Nigeria
In recent times, Nigeria and Ghana have experienced bloody conflicts between herders and farmers. Studies identify indigeneity and citizenship struggles as causal factors of the conflicts. Ghana and Nigeria have implemented policies and legislations to manage herders and farmers conflicts. Because scholarly engagement with the policies and legislations are relatively scant, the ways in which indigeneity and citizenship struggles are subtly ingrai…
Rethinking ‘August Meeting’ in Southeastern Nigeria
‘August Meeting’ is the annual homecoming or convention of Igbo women hometown associations of Southeastern Nigeria. For local communities in Southeastern Nigeria, August Meeting is a veritable platform for driving development, managing conflicts and building peace. But August Meeting is also a tool for hatching and promoting conflicts. While the conflict resolution and peacebuilding role of August Meeting has been acknowledged and applauded, its…
Enclaves of Banditry
Parts of northern Nigeria are becoming enclaves of banditry for gangs of cattle rustlers who maraud largely ungoverned forests. Extant studies of banditry shy away from serious interrogation of cattle rustling and ungoverned forest spaces in northern Nigeria. Onwuzuruigbo investigates the connection between cattle rustling and ungoverned forest spaces, highlighting the role of criminal groups in creating their own governance structures. The upswi…
Indigenising Eurocentric sociology
Over the years, the social sciences and related disciplines in postcolonial societies have agitated against the dominant Eurocentric mode of knowledge production. In this case, the grouse against Eurocentric knowledge production is that it undermines attempts at indigenising Eurocentric sociology in Nigeria. This article is an engagement with efforts to evolve a Nigerian sociology. It draws upon the concept of the captive mind, developed by Syed …
Space of Power and Power of Space
Spatial struggles can shed light on sociopolitical processes in the evolution of African cities. Pressures on urban amenities apart, there are hassles over space orchestrated by the drift of large population of Africans to the cities. As a result, conflicts over space exist among the living as well as the “dead,” given the shrinking interment spaces in most cemeteries of urban Africa. This paper identifies the more recent controversy over burial …
Care and Support for the Aged among the Esan of South-South Nigeria
The extended family system is an important ingredient for care and support for the aged in traditional African society. Although this mechanism is gradually being eroded, there is no formal social security apparatus to fill the gap. This study therefore examined the nature of care and support system for the aged and the coping strategies among the Esan of South-South Nigeria through the qualitative method. Esan-Central and Esan-West LGAs were pur…
Amazons of War and Peace
This study investigates the role of women civil society organizations in communal conflicts in South-eastern Nigeria. Until recently the literature on the nexus of gender, civil society, peace and conflict research in Nigeria suggests that civil society studies have been largely gender blind. This is because the literature sometimes ignores the specificities of women group involvement in socio-economic and political processes. There is therefore …
Even if we Meet in Heaven We Will Fight
Accepting that the Land Question was only limited to former settler colonies in Africa such as Kenya and Zimbabwe, dominant opinion in the literature has tended to trivialize the bitter struggles for land, many of which began during the colonial dispensation in many African nations. With globalization, democratization, structural adjustment and intensification of identity politics, many of these land conflicts have lingered. Yet studies of the co…
Old Wine in New Bottle
Africa boils on account of intractable communal conflicts. Strategies adopted to manage the conflicts conform to western approaches of conflict management. Traditional forms of conflict resolution have been rarely applied. This has prompted emphasis on traditional tools of conflict management. Drawing from interviews and archival documents, this paper focuses on the deployment of iko mmee ritual by local civil society organizations in managing th…
Horizontal Inequalities and Communal Conflicts
Intra-state conflicts in Africa have been attributed to various factors such as the end of the Cold War, globalization, sustained population growth, environmental scarcity and violent youth culture. Extracts from these dominant global perspectives, collocated and mixed with the economic crisis thesis at the national level, constitute the mainstream analytical scheme for understanding the proliferation of communal conflicts in Nigeria. However, th…
Researching ethnic conflicts in Nigeria
The renewed upsurge in ethnic and communal conflicts in Nigeria has generated increased interests in ethnic conflicts studies. A dominant approach in the literature is the concentration on the study of inter-ethnic conflicts at the expense of intra-ethnic conflicts. However, experiences have shown that intra-ethnic conflicts are as equally preponderant and bloody as inter-ethnic conflicts, suggesting that considerable research attention be direct…
Enclaves of Banditry
Parts of northern Nigeria are becoming enclaves of banditry for gangs of cattle rustlers who maraud largely ungoverned forests. Extant studies of banditry shy away from serious interrogation of cattle rustling and ungoverned forest spaces in northern Nigeria. Onwuzuruigbo investigates the connection between cattle rustling and ungoverned forest spaces, highlighting the role of criminal groups in creating their own governance structures. The upswi…
Indigenising Eurocentric sociology
Over the years, the social sciences and related disciplines in postcolonial societies have agitated against the dominant Eurocentric mode of knowledge production. In this case, the grouse against Eurocentric knowledge production is that it undermines attempts at indigenising Eurocentric sociology in Nigeria. This article is an engagement with efforts to evolve a Nigerian sociology. It draws upon the concept of the captive mind, developed by Syed …
Horizontal Inequalities and Communal Conflicts
Intra-state conflicts in Africa have been attributed to various factors such as the end of the Cold War, globalization, sustained population growth, environmental scarcity and violent youth culture. Extracts from these dominant global perspectives, collocated and mixed with the economic crisis thesis at the national level, constitute the mainstream analytical scheme for understanding the proliferation of communal conflicts in Nigeria. However, th…
Even if we Meet in Heaven We Will Fight
Accepting that the Land Question was only limited to former settler colonies in Africa such as Kenya and Zimbabwe, dominant opinion in the literature has tended to trivialize the bitter struggles for land, many of which began during the colonial dispensation in many African nations. With globalization, democratization, structural adjustment and intensification of identity politics, many of these land conflicts have lingered. Yet studies of the co…
Researching ethnic conflicts in Nigeria
The renewed upsurge in ethnic and communal conflicts in Nigeria has generated increased interests in ethnic conflicts studies. A dominant approach in the literature is the concentration on the study of inter-ethnic conflicts at the expense of intra-ethnic conflicts. However, experiences have shown that intra-ethnic conflicts are as equally preponderant and bloody as inter-ethnic conflicts, suggesting that considerable research attention be direct…
Space of Power and Power of Space
Spatial struggles can shed light on sociopolitical processes in the evolution of African cities. Pressures on urban amenities apart, there are hassles over space orchestrated by the drift of large population of Africans to the cities. As a result, conflicts over space exist among the living as well as the “dead,” given the shrinking interment spaces in most cemeteries of urban Africa. This paper identifies the more recent controversy over burial …
Old Wine in New Bottle
Africa boils on account of intractable communal conflicts. Strategies adopted to manage the conflicts conform to western approaches of conflict management. Traditional forms of conflict resolution have been rarely applied. This has prompted emphasis on traditional tools of conflict management. Drawing from interviews and archival documents, this paper focuses on the deployment of iko mmee ritual by local civil society organizations in managing th…
Understanding the 2022 Kenyan presidential election outcome
The ethnicisation of election and the concomitant diffusion of violence has been widely explored in the literature on Kenyan presidential elections. However, the critical character of the elections has been understudied, especially as it concerns the depth and intensity of involvement occasioned by the realignment of political actors. Oftentimes, this has resulted in the emergence of fundamental changes in power dynamics. This study drew insights…
Citizenship, Indigeneity and the Management of Herders and Farmers Conflicts in Ghana and Nigeria
In recent times, Nigeria and Ghana have experienced bloody conflicts between herders and farmers. Studies identify indigeneity and citizenship struggles as causal factors of the conflicts. Ghana and Nigeria have implemented policies and legislations to manage herders and farmers conflicts. Because scholarly engagement with the policies and legislations are relatively scant, the ways in which indigeneity and citizenship struggles are subtly ingrai…
Amazons of War and Peace
This study investigates the role of women civil society organizations in communal conflicts in South-eastern Nigeria. Until recently the literature on the nexus of gender, civil society, peace and conflict research in Nigeria suggests that civil society studies have been largely gender blind. This is because the literature sometimes ignores the specificities of women group involvement in socio-economic and political processes. There is therefore …
Researching ethnic conflicts in Nigeria
The renewed upsurge in ethnic and communal conflicts in Nigeria has generated increased interests in ethnic conflicts studies. A dominant approach in the literature is the concentration on the study of inter-ethnic conflicts at the expense of intra-ethnic conflicts. However, experiences have shown that intra-ethnic conflicts are as equally preponderant and bloody as inter-ethnic conflicts, suggesting that considerable research attention be direct…
Old Wine in New Bottle
Africa boils on account of intractable communal conflicts. Strategies adopted to manage the conflicts conform to western approaches of conflict management. Traditional forms of conflict resolution have been rarely applied. This has prompted emphasis on traditional tools of conflict management. Drawing from interviews and archival documents, this paper focuses on the deployment of iko mmee ritual by local civil society organizations in managing th…
Horizontal Inequalities and Communal Conflicts
Intra-state conflicts in Africa have been attributed to various factors such as the end of the Cold War, globalization, sustained population growth, environmental scarcity and violent youth culture. Extracts from these dominant global perspectives, collocated and mixed with the economic crisis thesis at the national level, constitute the mainstream analytical scheme for understanding the proliferation of communal conflicts in Nigeria. However, th…
Amazons of War and Peace
This study investigates the role of women civil society organizations in communal conflicts in South-eastern Nigeria. Until recently the literature on the nexus of gender, civil society, peace and conflict research in Nigeria suggests that civil society studies have been largely gender blind. This is because the literature sometimes ignores the specificities of women group involvement in socio-economic and political processes. There is therefore …
Even if we Meet in Heaven We Will Fight
Accepting that the Land Question was only limited to former settler colonies in Africa such as Kenya and Zimbabwe, dominant opinion in the literature has tended to trivialize the bitter struggles for land, many of which began during the colonial dispensation in many African nations. With globalization, democratization, structural adjustment and intensification of identity politics, many of these land conflicts have lingered. Yet studies of the co…
Space of Power and Power of Space
Spatial struggles can shed light on sociopolitical processes in the evolution of African cities. Pressures on urban amenities apart, there are hassles over space orchestrated by the drift of large population of Africans to the cities. As a result, conflicts over space exist among the living as well as the “dead,” given the shrinking interment spaces in most cemeteries of urban Africa. This paper identifies the more recent controversy over burial …
Care and Support for the Aged among the Esan of South-South Nigeria
The extended family system is an important ingredient for care and support for the aged in traditional African society. Although this mechanism is gradually being eroded, there is no formal social security apparatus to fill the gap. This study therefore examined the nature of care and support system for the aged and the coping strategies among the Esan of South-South Nigeria through the qualitative method. Esan-Central and Esan-West LGAs were pur…
Indigenising Eurocentric sociology
Over the years, the social sciences and related disciplines in postcolonial societies have agitated against the dominant Eurocentric mode of knowledge production. In this case, the grouse against Eurocentric knowledge production is that it undermines attempts at indigenising Eurocentric sociology in Nigeria. This article is an engagement with efforts to evolve a Nigerian sociology. It draws upon the concept of the captive mind, developed by Syed …
Rethinking ‘August Meeting’ in Southeastern Nigeria
‘August Meeting’ is the annual homecoming or convention of Igbo women hometown associations of Southeastern Nigeria. For local communities in Southeastern Nigeria, August Meeting is a veritable platform for driving development, managing conflicts and building peace. But August Meeting is also a tool for hatching and promoting conflicts. While the conflict resolution and peacebuilding role of August Meeting has been acknowledged and applauded, its…
Enclaves of Banditry
Parts of northern Nigeria are becoming enclaves of banditry for gangs of cattle rustlers who maraud largely ungoverned forests. Extant studies of banditry shy away from serious interrogation of cattle rustling and ungoverned forest spaces in northern Nigeria. Onwuzuruigbo investigates the connection between cattle rustling and ungoverned forest spaces, highlighting the role of criminal groups in creating their own governance structures. The upswi…
Citizenship, Indigeneity and the Management of Herders and Farmers Conflicts in Ghana and Nigeria
In recent times, Nigeria and Ghana have experienced bloody conflicts between herders and farmers. Studies identify indigeneity and citizenship struggles as causal factors of the conflicts. Ghana and Nigeria have implemented policies and legislations to manage herders and farmers conflicts. Because scholarly engagement with the policies and legislations are relatively scant, the ways in which indigeneity and citizenship struggles are subtly ingrai…
Coalition or Government of National Unity? Critical reflections on the 2024 elections in South Africa
This paper examines the 2024 general elections in South Africa which was reminiscent of the 1994 electoral ecology in terms of the high stakes. The pre- and post-election ecology of the recent elections exhibited characteristics of Key's critical elections, given the depth and intensity of involvement. With a 40.18% voter share, the African National Congress's (ANC) 30-year electoral dominance was over, thereby making a coalition government at th…
Understanding the 2022 Kenyan presidential election outcome
The ethnicisation of election and the concomitant diffusion of violence has been widely explored in the literature on Kenyan presidential elections. However, the critical character of the elections has been understudied, especially as it concerns the depth and intensity of involvement occasioned by the realignment of political actors. Oftentimes, this has resulted in the emergence of fundamental changes in power dynamics. This study drew insights…
Checkpoint Politics, Cross-Border Exchanges, and Nigeria’s 2019 Border Closure Policy
Aggressive smuggling of agricultural and petroleum products, automobiles, fabrics, and firearms underscores the motivation for Nigeria’s border-closure policy instituted in August 2019. The dominant opinion, particularly that of the official government analysts, assessed the policy as successful, even before thoroughly evaluating its performance. Existing studies on borders and cross-border relations in Africa have focused on colonial cartography…
Cultural hegemony and ethnic minority struggles in Nigeria
This study explores the plight of ethnic minorities and marginals and their increasing quest to obliterate their subordinate status and attempts by the dominant groups to maintain the status quo in Nigeria. Such interactions have induced resistance and increasingly stimulated questions of insecurity. Extant explanations of ethnic hegemony have mainly focused on describing and analysing the phenomenon with the attendant socio-political, economic, …
No Patience, no Goodluck
African First Ladies are categorised into two: the less powerful First Ladies, the behind-the-scene actors, making positive contributions to their spouses’ regime and the powerful First Ladies whose arbitrary powers and overarching presence pose real threat to the regime. Extant studies concentrate on the former and pay scant attention to the latter. Drawing on the activities of Patience Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s former First Lady, this paper …
The Role of Nigeria's Correctional Service and its Effectiveness in Rehabilitating Offenders
This study investigated the effectiveness of Nigeria's Correctional Service in rehabilitating offenders, with a focus on Kuje Correctional Center, Abuja. The central problem addressed is the high rate of recidivism and whether the rehabilitation programmes are effective in reducing this trend. The purpose of the study was to assess the types of rehabilitation programmes available, their effectiveness, and the challenges faced in implementing thes…
Checkpoints and the Management of Insecurity in Southwestern Nigeria
In the face of growing insecurity, checkpoints have become vital instruments in management of insecurity in Nigeria. Security checkpoints are best understood as designated areas, lines, or points of contact along a road or border where individuals and vehicles are subject to checks. Extant studies concentrate more on the politics of checkpoints mounted by non-state actors, particularly in northern Nigeria. Checkpoints manned by state security for…
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