Conflict resolution among Niger delta communities: A historical perspective

2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
KE Orji ◽  
S Enyadike
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Historical Perspective

scholarly journals Versifying History and National Trauma in Tanure Ojaide’s The Endless Song

SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824401983743
Author(s):  
Edwin Onwuka ◽  
Emmanuel Uba ◽  
Isaiah Fortress
Keyword(s):  
Niger Delta ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
The Past ◽  
Niger Delta Region ◽  
National Trauma ◽  
Verse Form ◽  
Bad Leadership

The symbiotic relationship between literature and history is most visible in the writer’s deployment of his or her art to document experiences of the past and their impacts on the feelings and well-being of his or her people in the periods represented in the work(s). This article explores the historical content and significance of Tanure Ojaide’s The Endless Song from a new historical perspective. Most studies on Ojaide’s poetry often focus on his critique of bad leadership and his denunciation of exploitation and pillaging of Nigeria’s Niger Delta region with little attention paid to his poems as history in verse form. This article therefore contributes to criticism on the interface between literature and history. This study further highlights significant motifs in Nigeria’s history in the periods documented in The Endless Song and analyses the traumatic impacts of the events on the well-being of Nigeria and her people. These are aimed at showing that Ojaide’s The Endless Song is more than an outcry against the plundering of the Niger Delta region; it represents the spatiotemporal record of Nigeria’s turbulent history.

Dramaturgy of Social Relevance and Conflict Resolution: A Dialectical Study of The Wives Revolt by JP Clark’s

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Uzochukwu Ugwu AGOZIE
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Delta Area ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The People ◽  
Oil Spillage ◽  
The Social

<strong><strong></strong></strong><p>Drama arguably stimulates change in the society through its ability to modify human minds and through the harmonisation of human impulses. It uses images easily identifiable by the members of the society and presents it before the society, provides a dramatic experience of the social realities bedevilling the society and thus creates awareness and consciousness. Some of the issues drama of social relevance addresses includes conflict resolution, security issues, and community development among others. This paper explores the efficacy of JP Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt as a veritable tool for the resolution of conflict in the Niger Delta. Clark in this play advocates for a non-violent form of protest as a workable alternative towards the resolution of conflict in the oil rich Niger Delta. The cauldron of contradiction that characterises the movement for the emancipation of the people of Niger-Delta does not only negate the actualisation of the emancipation goals. Violence has turned the agitation of the people of the Nigeria Delta area of Nigeria out of many years of environmental havoc; the collapse of their eco-system and economic crisis into serious conflict. Vendetta and gratification have eaten deep into the fabric of this society and nothing is being done in terms of the emancipation of the natives at the grassroots who suffer high profile effects of the destruction of their eco-system through oil spillage. This paper uses the peaceful suggestions Clark makes in The Wives’ Revolt as pointers or viable alternatives for the simulation of change and resolution of conflict not just in the Niger-Delta but other parts of Nigeria suffering from any form of violent crisis.</p>

scholarly journals Colonial Railways and Conflict Resolution Between Portugal and the United Kingdom in Africa (c. 1880–early 1900s)

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-105
Author(s):  
Hugo Silveira Pereira
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Geographical Proximity ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Resolution Analysis

Abstract In the 1870s, Portugal transferred the public works program it was undertaking on the mainland – in which railways played a decisive role – to its African colonies of Angola and Mozambique. In this strategy, the United Kingdom was an obvious partner, given the historical connection between both nations and the geographical proximity between the colonies each country had in Africa. However, British and Portuguese imperial agendas could easily clash, as both London and Lisbon coveted the same areas of Africa. Hence, the initial and apparent cooperation rapidly evolved to a situation of conflict. In this paper, I aim to analyse three instances of dispute between Portugal and Britain about colonial railways in Angola and Mozambique. I will use the methodological tools of conflict resolution analysis in a historical perspective and the concept of track-two diplomacy within the framework of technodiplomacy.

scholarly journals THE NIGER DELTA PHENOMENON FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF SARTRE’S EXISTENTIALISM AND SOCIAL POSITIVISM

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ncha Gabriel Bubu
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Niger Delta

<p>To some, existentialism and positivism in bipolar thinking, are dichotomies, others view them as related concepts in philosophy. It is a considered view of this paper that these two schools of thought are related, complementary and have a relationship that is useful in conflict resolution. This assertion is examined in this analysis vis-à-vis the Niger Delta, is the trust of this paper.</p>

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