Nigeria has a national motto of "Unity in diversity" to reflect its 250 ethnic groups, but in reality has a unitary system with a powerful central government and weak states. While economically and politically influential in Africa, Nigeria struggles with issues like a dependence on oil, high debt, uneven development between its northern and southern regions, and tensions between maintaining tribal and national identities. Its cultural dualism and uneven effects of colonial rule have also fostered competition between ethnic groups and hindered economic growth.
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Nigeria has a national motto of "Unity in diversity" to reflect its 250 ethnic groups, but in reality has a unitary system with a powerful central government and weak states. While economically and politically influential in Africa, Nigeria struggles with issues like a dependence on oil, high debt, uneven development between its northern and southern regions, and tensions between maintaining tribal and national identities. Its cultural dualism and uneven effects of colonial rule have also fostered competition between ethnic groups and hindered economic growth.
Nigeria has a national motto of "Unity in diversity" to reflect its 250 ethnic groups, but in reality has a unitary system with a powerful central government and weak states. While economically and politically influential in Africa, Nigeria struggles with issues like a dependence on oil, high debt, uneven development between its northern and southern regions, and tensions between maintaining tribal and national identities. Its cultural dualism and uneven effects of colonial rule have also fostered competition between ethnic groups and hindered economic growth.
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Nigeria has a national motto of "Unity in diversity" to reflect its 250 ethnic groups, but in reality has a unitary system with a powerful central government and weak states. While economically and politically influential in Africa, Nigeria struggles with issues like a dependence on oil, high debt, uneven development between its northern and southern regions, and tensions between maintaining tribal and national identities. Its cultural dualism and uneven effects of colonial rule have also fostered competition between ethnic groups and hindered economic growth.
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National Motto: “Unity in diversity” 250 ethnic groups All-powerful central government with weak states. Therefore while advertised as a federal system, the system in Nigeria really is a unitary system The executive branch is the most powerful at all levels Recently state governments, the National Assembly, and the judiciary have been chipping away at the powers of the national executive branch. While powerful in Africa, Nigeria is weak on the global scale GDP per capita just over $300 Nigeria used to make its own foods, but now relies on imports There is a lack of foreign investment in Nigeria now The Nigerian economy is heavily dependent upon oil Heavy debt gives IMF leverage over macroeconomic policy Interventionist-a state that acts vigorously to shape the performance of major sectors of the economy The state is the largest source of economic activity. Cultural dualism because of colonization. Pre-colonial society v. Western ideas The local subjects were treated more as submissive followers rather than active participants in the parliamentary government Two public realms: the communal realm where people are identified by ethnic or sub ethnic group and civil realm where everyone was citizen Tribal loyalties v. Greater Nigeria South got the benefits of colonial rule while the north did not. Uneven development between North and South. Triple threat of clientlism, corruption, and unstable authoritarian rule. Fosters ethnic group competition and hinders economic development Policies made toward groups or individuals not the community at-large Accept the concept of a united Nigeria but disagree on how to represent the different ethic groups “As Nigeria goes, so goes the rest of sub-Saharan Africa” Largest population in Africa One out of five Black Africans are Nigerian Oldest surviving federation in Africa’