TRENDS TOWARDS ONE ETHNIC NATION AND CULTURE AREA
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TRENDS TOWARDS ONE ETHNIC NATION AND CULTURE AREA
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Particularly since independence the governments of
the Federation have devised many ways and means of promoting unity among the
diverse ethnic nations and culture areas of the country. For instance
considerable importance has been attached to cultural festivals at national
levels to highlight the richness as well as the complimentarily of the ways of
life within the borders of the country. Federal Government colleges which admit
students from all parts of the country have been established in the states, as a
practical means of making the youths of the country to live and work together
and see themselves as one. Many other activities, particularly sports, are being
stressed as a means of forging one nation. Occasionally, some political
developments have generated stresses and strains in the move towards the
emergence of one ethnic nation and culture area. The issue of one national
lingua franca, which is not English language, remains controversial. Party
political affiliation during the civilian regime were heavily ethnic-oriented
and tended to make the country fall apart. The civil war which raged for thirty
months from July, 1967 to January 1970 shook the country to its roots. The
country has emerged from the war more united than it was before it, especially
with the creation of twelve states on May 27, 1967 under a strong Federal
government. The goal of the Federation during the war has been kept constantly
in view in the post war years. The goal is succinctly in the war jingo "To
keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done".
The trend today, which is becoming stronger than before, is towards the
evolution of one ethnic nation and culture area.
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