April 2010

Interplay between philosophy and history: Additional justification for course enrollments across disciplines

This paper seeks to revisit the bonds between history and philosophy and to unravel not just the enormously fertile ground lying fallow for so long between them, but also the inevitability of one to the other. In the main body of the study, it was discovered that any serious claim to explore what the term ‘history’ stands for must strive, first of all, to surmount some inherent epistemological, semantical,...

Author(s):   Chukwugozie Maduka and Leo Otoide        

April 2010

Identity politics and the Jos crisis: Evidence, lessons and challenges of good governance

Concerns with identity politics especially those woven around conflict have got an almost outrageous timeliness. The salient global role of ethnic and religious identity as it affects everything from democratic development to risk of disruptive communal conflicts at domestic level has become an important dimension of present-day world societies, looming largely in multiethnic societies. This paper takes a critical look...

Author(s):   Terhemba Nom Ambe-Uva