Cultural solidarity among the Igbo of South-eastern Nigeria : a tool for rural development
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Authors
Anyanele, Chikadi John
Issue Date
2013-02-06
Type
Dissertation
Language
en
Keywords
Cultural solidarity , Rural development , Common development , Community centred , Good governance , Common good , Home-based model , Traditional culture , Progressive Union , Living reality
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Abstract
The pillars on which this study is based (stands) could be compared with the observations of Ejiofor (1981: 4), who says the modern-and-African political models have not been sufficiently discovered, developed, and operated in African states. One thinks that the social and political behaviour of African people are in conflict with the present day political structures and institutions. Political and economic actors fail to harness the knowledge, attitudes, and responses with the indigenous values. Own to these reasons the present political dispensations in Africa are misconceived and ill-adapted to their reality. Hence, the call for detailed study of home-grown African values as a means to redress these imbalances has become inevitable. This study is based on Igbo cultural solidarity as a means to address and achieve rural development in Africa.
Meanwhile, this study attempts to re-ignite and re-echo ‘people-based’ and understood ‘home-based’ models of achieving rural development as focused on Okigwe-Owerri-Orlu political divisions among the Igbo of South-eastern Nigeria.
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Anyanelle, Chikadi John (2013) Cultural solidarity among the Igbo of South-eastern Nigeria : a tool for rural development, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8602>
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University of South Africa