Arts and Humanities

URBANIZATION ETHNICITY

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Abstract
Nigeria, as a developing nation, continues to experience urbanisation uniquely. The nature of Nigeria's urbanisation, steeped in lack of industrialisation and high unemployment, aggravates
the problem of ethnicity and the question

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of the Nigerian identity in the urban centres. Though the creation of Nigeria by the British Colonial Government as an amalgamation of diverse ethnic groups in one geographical space is the foundation of its intractable problems, it is inadequate to account for the country's current underdevelopment and poor social cohesion. Successive bad leadership has played a crucial role in the degeneration and predicament of the country. This paper assesses the issues of urbanisation, ethnicity and the question of the Nigerian identity. It contributes that while myriads of problems bedevil Nigeria, dishonesty and lack of the rule of law exemplified by the government and citizenry are their fundamental anchors. Therefore, a preoccupation with the values of honesty and the rule of law and the building of solid public institutions and infrastructures to transform Nigerian polity is indispensable. These would set the country on an all-encompassing path of progress and prosperity for all and facilitate the construction of the hitherto elusive Nigerian identity. Conflict theory is the theoretical framework for this paper, and the method adopted is historical analysis.

Keywords: cohesion, development, ethnicity, identity,