Citizenship, Federalism and Powersharing: Nigeria's Federal Character and the Challenges of Institutional Design

Kendhammer, Brandon

doi:10.1080/17449057.2014.906150

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“…Those regarded as nonindigenous or "settlers" face an equivalent lack of opportunity. 80 There is, however, no clear definition of the concept and indigeneity is in practice determined by whether a person belongs to an ethnic group regarded as having settled in a place before other groups. 81 In southern Kaduna local-government areas, Hausa and Fulani Muslims are regarded as nonindigenous and claim to be marginalized by Christians.…”

Section: Representationmentioning

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Struggles over Identity and Territory: Regional Identities in Ethnoreligious Conflict in Northern Nigeria

Angerbrandt

2016

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

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This article explores how ethnoreligious conflict over boundaries and territoriality involves a politics of scale, that is, how positions and demands are framed by actors according to, for instance, local, regional, and national scales. The analysis focuses on how Muslim actors in a conflict in Kaduna State in Nigeria frame a regional, northern Nigerian identity that varies in content and form depending on the scalar context in which communal conflict is placed with regional and national politics yielding different identifications.

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Section: Representationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Struggles over Identity and Territory: Regional Identities in Ethnoreligious Conflict in Northern Nigeria

Angerbrandt

2016

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

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“…Kendhammer observes that Nigerian nationals whose ethnic ancestry is not local to their official province or state of residence face systematic discrimination that denies them full local and state‐level (provincial) citizenship and the political rights that come with it. “In many jurisdictions across Nigeria, it is effectively impossible for ethnic ‘strangers to gain ‘indigene’ status in their state of residence, even if they have lived there since birth” (sic) (Kendhammer, , p. 397). The consequence of this is that what conveys citizenship primarily is ethnic relationship rather than the place of birth.…”

Section: Poor State Identity and Public Administration In The Africanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bureaucratization and administrative development in Africa: A reading of Riggs' theory of prismatic society

Ikeanyibe

2017

Public Admin & Development

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Summary Poor bureaucratization in prismatic (transitional) societies is attributed to malintegration of the ideal bureaucratic principles with subsisting traditional sociocultural features by Fred Riggs. Riggs has been severely criticized on many fronts, yet aspects of his theory remain relevant towards explaining persistent poor administrative behaviour in most African countries. This article applies Riggs' notion of poly‐communalism and poly‐normativism to explain the contribution of low state identity to persistent poor administrative behaviour in Africa. Historical institutionalism theory is also used to attempt at resolving the challenge of equilibrium for which Riggs' theory is commonly criticized. The author avers that communalism, a value that supports group interest in a traditional society, subsists in most poly‐communal transitional African countries, leading to distortions in administrative behaviour. A good number of African countries were mobilized through colonialism but poorly assimilated, thus lacking strong common state identity, which leads to ineffective public administration. The article suggests that resolving the trapping of the administrative system in Africa requires resolving the challenge of poly‐communalism and lack of common identity among a state population.

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“…Brendon Kendhammer concluded after extensive interviews with employees of the FCC, that, "since the mid-2000s, the FCC has come to rely on the LGAs to do this work for them, particularly through the issuance of 'indigeneship certificates' to qualified citizens. Given the lack of federal oversight, the criteria for assigning indigeneship within LGAs-particularly around Clause 1(b)-vary tremendously, swayed by the dynamics of local ethnic (and, where they overlap, religious) conflicts and the results of (often violently contested) LGA elections" (Kendhammer 2014).…”

Section: Indigeneitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutionalizing Instability: The Constitutional Roots of Insecurity in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic

Matfess¹

2016

Stability: International Journal of Security and Development

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Citizenship, Federalism and Powersharing: Nigeria's Federal Character and the Challenges of Institutional Design

Cited by 34 publications

References 49 publications

Struggles over Identity and Territory: Regional Identities in Ethnoreligious Conflict in Northern Nigeria

Struggles over Identity and Territory: Regional Identities in Ethnoreligious Conflict in Northern Nigeria

Bureaucratization and administrative development in Africa: A reading of Riggs' theory of prismatic society

Institutionalizing Instability: The Constitutional Roots of Insecurity in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic

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