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| Title: | Violence and national development in Nigeria: the political economy of youth restiveness in the Niger Delta |
| Author: | Arowosegbe, Jeremiah O. |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 122 |
| Pages: | 575-594 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | youth violence petroleum industry political economy |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240903346178 |
| Abstract: | One element in the contradictions underpinning Nigeria's development crisis is the marginalization of the youth. This article examines the factors that influence youth restiveness in Nigeria's Niger Delta region. It discusses the impact of conservative elite politics and the oil-centric political economy characterized by the impoverishment, neglect and repression of the oil-producing communities on the youth in the region. The article raises questions about the violence-development dialectic, drawing upon the context, dynamics, explanations and impact of youth violence in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta. It examines the contradictions and injustices existing against the ethnic minorities of the oil-bearing communities in the region resulting from the centralization of oil revenues by the federal centre and how these have generated marginalization and violent conflict. Detailing the repressive responses by the Nigerian State and the forms of violence that have occurred in the region between 1999 and 2007, the article discusses the implications of youth violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta for national development in Nigeria. It provides a context for understanding the connection between youth involvement in violent conflict and its deleterious impact on Nigeria's development. Tapping into issues of ethnicity and high-stake elite politics, it locates violent youth behaviour in the politics of exclusion and proffers suggestions for restoring the trust of marginalized youth as a necessary step toward development and peace in Nigeria. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |
