4- Identity issues in urban ethno-communal con! ict in Africa: an empirical study of Ife-Modakeke crisis in Nigeria
Revue africaine de sociologie,
Vol. 13 No 2 (2009): Revue africaine de sociologie
Résumé
! e paper examines identity issues in urban ethno-communal con" ict focusing on the case of
Ife-Modakeke in Nigeria. ! e data used in the study is from a larger survey carried out by
the author in Ife and Modakeke communities. ! e data collected was analysed using simple
frequencies, percentages and correlation statistical technique. Given the circumstance that led
to the birth of Modakeke; the status of Modakeke and that of its people has always been a source
of dispute and con" ict. First, is the issue of landlord/tenant relationship and second, is the issue
of indigene/non-indigene status and by extension the problem of citizenship. In both communities ethnic attachment is high, and, inter-personal relationship among the people in the
two communities is not that very cordial. Signi# cant negative relationship is found between
inter-personal relationship and age, age of the youngest child, and if most important organization
belonged to is ethnic organization. Signi# cant positive relationship is found between inter-personal relationship and having relative in the other community (Ife or Modakeke). ! e
result of the correlation analysis between ethnic attachment and inter-personal relationships
among the people of the two communities though found not to be signi# cant shows a negative
relationship. ! is result suggests that for sustainable peace to be attained there is the need
to pursue policies that encourages social integration, as well as policies that discourage strong
ethnic attachment and the spread of ethnically related organizations in the two communities.
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Les références
Aguda, A. S. 2001. “The effect of communal conflict and violence on urban residential segregation” A paper presented at the International Conference on Security, Segregation and Social Networks in West African Cities 19ᵗʰ to 20ᵗʰ centuries Organised by the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA) and Institute of African studies and Centre for Urban and Regional Planning, University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria 29ᵗʰ to 31ˢᵗ October 2001.
Agbe Adetola Gabriel 2001. The Ife – Modakeke crisis: An insider view. Ife Psychologia 9 (3), pp. 14 – 20.
Ajayi J.F.A. and Akintoye S.A. 1980. Cited in Albert, I. 1999. Ife – Modakeke crisis.
In Otite, O. and Albert, I. S; Community conjlict in Nigeria: Management, Resolution and Transformation. Ibadan: Spectrum Books.
Akinjogbin, I. A. 1992. “Ife: The years of Travail 1793-1893” in I. A. Akinjogbin (ed.) The cradle of race: Ife from beginning to 1980. Port Harcourt: Sunray Publications.
Akintoye S. A. 1970. Cited in Albert, I. 1999. Ife – Modakeke crisis. In Otite, O. and Albert, I.
S; Community conjlict in Nigeria: Management, Resolution and Transformation. Ibadan: Spectrum Books.
Albert, I. 1999. Ife – Modakeke crisis. In Otite, O. and Albert, I. S; Community conjlict in Nigeria: Management, Resolution and Transformation. Ibadan: Spectrum Books. Augsburger, D. W. 1992.
Conjlict mediation across culture: pathway and pattern. Alouisville, Kentucky: Westminister john Knox Press.
Babajimi P. 2003. “Ife-Modakeke conflicts in Osun State” in Thomas A. Imobighe (ed.) Civil society and ethnic conflict management in Nigeria. Ibadan: Spectrum Books.
Boaten A. 2000. “Ethicity and ethnic conflicts in Africa: Ghana’s example” in Paul Nchoji Nkwi (ed.) The anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21ˢᵗ century Proceeings of the 9ᵗʰ Annual conference of the Pan African Anthropological Association. p. 266-270.
De Vaus D. A. 1998 Surveys in Social Research UCL, London.
Imobighe A. Thomas 2003. “Ethnicity and ethnic conflicts in Nigeria: an Overview” in Thomas A.
Imobighe (ed.) Civil society and ethnic conjlict management in Nigeria. Ibadan: Spectrum Johnson S. 1973. The history of the Yorubas, C.M.S.
Nnoli O. 1980. Ethnic politics in Nigeria, Fourth Dimension, Enugu Oladoyin A. M. 2001. “State and Ethno-Communal Violence in Nigeria: The case of Ife-Modakeke” Africa Development, Vol. XXVI, Nos. 1 & 2 pp. 195 – 223.
Omotayo B. 2005. “Women and conflict in the new information age: Virtual Librariesto the rescue” A paper presented at the World Library and Information Congress: 71th IFLA General Conference and Council “Library - a voyage of discovery” August 15ᵗʰ – 18ᵗʰ 2005, Oslo, Norway.
Otite O. 1990. Ethnic pluralism and ethnicity in Nigeria, Shaneson, Ibadan.
Otite O. 1999.“On conflicts, their resolution, transformation, and management” in Otite Onigu, and Albert Olawale Isaac (eds.) Community conjlicts in Nigeria: Management, Resolution and Transformation, Spectrum Books, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Short, J. P. 1996 The Urban Order: An Introduction to Cities, Culture and Power. Blackwell, U.S.A. Toriola O. J. 2001. The Ife – Modakeke crisis: An insider view. Ife Psychologia 9 (3), pp. 21 – 29.
Ubi, O. A. 2001. Communal conflict and traditional conflict resolution: the Ugeb/Idomi 1992 conflict experience. Ife Psychologia 9 (3), pp. 71 – 82.
Van Den Berghe P. 1987. The Ethnic Phenomenon, New York, Praeger.