The sociocultural perspective of farmers-herders conflict and national integration

• Authors: Dickson Ogbonnaya

Abstracts

EN

Globally, sociocultural component of social relations weaves into shades of interactions including one existing between Farmers-Herders in their agricultural engagements to generate value that strengthens national integration. Migration pattern and choice expose migrant’s cross-cultural contact without insulating both sides from conflict which however, is a social fact and reality of all social relations. Drawing from the foregoing, the study argues that there is conflict of culturally derived identity interest among returning and settler’s migrants in first contact like in the case of Farmers-Herders, however, is largely a major conflicts driver that endangers sense of patriotism needed for national integration. It further argues that interest quest enables national consciousness and cultural chauvinism and that determines access and denial. However, while a lot of researches have gone into Farmers-Herders contact and conflicts, little of the sociocultural context of their interactions is known in northeast geopolitical zone of Nigeria. Hence, the focus of this study is to examine the sociocultural perspective of farmers-herders conflict as a challenge to national integration. Using Frustration-Aggression theory as framework, the exploratory research adopted qualitative approach to gather data via the conduct of 18 in-depth and 18 key informant interviews on purposively selected respondents two each from the 18 senatorial zones of six states in in North East Nigeria.

Keywords

EN

Sociocultural; Farmer-Herder; Migration; Identity; National integration; Conflict

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Reality of Politics
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 17
• Pages: 106-131

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Dickson Ogbonnaya

• National Open University of Nigeria

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/rop2021306

Biblioteka Nauki

1933424