January 2012

An assessment of ethnic conflict and its challenges today

  In this article we shall begin by defining ethnocentrism. According to anthropologists, the concept combines the belief that one’s own culture is superior to other cultures, with the practice of judging other cultures by the standards of one’s own culture. Sociologists and social-psychologists extend the term to group attitudes shown by religious, economic, racial, caste and class group within a...

Author(s): Kasomo Daniel

January 2012

Urban poverty in Nigeria and approaches to poverty alleviation: A review

The menace of urban poverty though global is most devastating in Africa especially Nigeria. Human conditions have greatly deteriorated particularly during the last decade with real disposable income declining steeply, malnutrition rates have risen sharply, and food production has hardly kept pace with population growth and the quantity and quality of health and education services deteriorating. This present trend of...

Author(s): Ignatius Okosun, Chamhuri Siwar, Abdul Samad Hadi and Abd. Rahim Md. Nor