African Culture and the Problems of Social Order in Nigeria
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 9
Abstract
No part of culture is totally unrelated to the social order, but it remains true that changes sometimes occur which has resulted to the recent societal unrest. Political crises, youth unrest, armed robbery, corruption and general decadence are the order of the day in the African societies. People are taking laws into their hands and nobody seems to know the solution to it. As a move towards contributing to the solution of this problem, the discourse on African culture and the problems of social order was undertaken with the objectives of finding out the place of the African culture in maintaining social order. The African pre-colonial period in comparison with the colonial and postcolonial was studied in relation to how order was maintained, using some Nigeria ethnic examples. It was discovered that the African culture have values enshrined in them that if maintained is capable of maintaining order in the society which is the norm in the pre-colonial periods. It was therefore concluded that the African culture has an active implication in the struggle to maintain order in the society and recommendations were made in that line. Keywords: Culture, Social Order, Africa, Norms, Values.
Authors and Affiliations
Iton Enobong Etim, Aliyu Mustapha, James Sylvester Anthony
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