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Racial Politics and Hausa-Fulani Dominant Identity in Colonial and Post-colonial Northern Nigeria

[journal article]

Ugbem, Erima Comfort
Omobowale, Ayokunle Olumuyiwa
Akinpelu, Olanrewaju Olutayo

Abstract

The paper examined racial politics and identity contests in Northern Nigeria. The paper specifically traced the trajectory of racial politics and examined the dynamics of identity construction and contests in Northern Nigeria. An essentially qualitative method of data collection comprising primary d... view more

The paper examined racial politics and identity contests in Northern Nigeria. The paper specifically traced the trajectory of racial politics and examined the dynamics of identity construction and contests in Northern Nigeria. An essentially qualitative method of data collection comprising primary data generated through in-depth interviews and secondary data generated through archival records were used. These were then subjected to content and descriptive analyses. Findings from the study revealed that racial politics originated during colonial rule with the British supposedly claiming gene/biological affinity of the Hausa-Fulani as with the Caucasoid groups of Eurasia. The Hausa-Fulani were consequently designated as the civilized group and super-imposed over minority groups that were classified as pagans. About six decades after colonial rule, Hausa-Fulani dominance remains a social reality in spite of identity contests and recreation by the minority groups of Northern Nigeria. Starting with the creation of the Middle Belt identity in the late 1950s, the constituent groups within the Middle Belt have consequently recreated other ethnic identities within Northern Nigeria. Notwithstanding, Hausa-Fulani remains the dominant group in Northern Nigeria socio-political structure.... view less

Keywords
Nigeria; colonialism; post-colonialism; racial policy; ethnic group; identity; West Africa

Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology

Free Keywords
Hausa-Fulani; Northern Nigeria

Document language
English

Publication Year
2019

Page/Pages
p. 87-102

Journal
The Nigerian Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 17 (2019) 1

DOI
https://doi.org/10.36108/NJSA/9102/71(0160)

ISSN
0331-4111

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0


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