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| Title: | Mass Poverty in Nigeria: Cultural Bases, Causes and Remedies |
| Author: | Anugwom, Edlyne E. |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Periodical: | African Anthropologist (ISSN 1024-0969) |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | March |
| Pages: | 4-16 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Nigeria West Africa |
| Subjects: | poverty Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Economics and Trade Politics and Government sociology social stratification Cultural environment Poverty alleviation Social reform |
| External link: | https://www.ajol.info/index.php/aa/article/view/23066 |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the issue of poverty in contemporary Nigerian society. The new thing about poverty in Nigeria now is that it has become a large-scale affliction. Mass poverty in the country has its genesis in the oil glut of the 1980s and the subsequent introduction of economic structural adjustment which, far from being a remedy, has pushed Nigerians, with the exception of the ruling class, further into poverty. Apart from this, mass poverty in Nigeria is tacitly encouraged by the government whose various policies and programmes have been tailored to further impoverish the masses. The widespread poverty in the country is webbed around a culture that situates people and their offspring in a particular social class and engenders certain norms and practices that ensure that they not only remain there but accept their situation as normal. The best way out of mass poverty in Nigeria may lie in the provision of good leadership, equitable distribution of resources, improvements in amenities and, more importantly, a cultural revival aimed at tackling norms that support poverty. Bibliogr., sum. |
