Narrative Change at the Roots: Imagining Peace in Modern Nigeria
This paper brings the literature on “narrative change” and “narrative transformation” to bear on post-independence Nigeria, applying an interpretative framework called Root Narrative Theory (RNT) to 1960s Nigeria; In this paper, we analyze selected memoirs of leaders who were key players in the coun...
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| Formato: | Capítulo de libro |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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IntechOpen
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/85564 |
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| Sumario: | This paper brings the literature on “narrative change” and “narrative transformation” to bear on post-independence Nigeria, applying an interpretative framework called Root Narrative Theory (RNT) to 1960s Nigeria; In this paper, we analyze selected memoirs of leaders who were key players in the country’s critical political junctures in the first decade of independence, when combatting poverty and economic development on a distinctive African model still seemed viable: Obafemi Awolowo, a Yoruba from the West, Nnamdi Azikiwe, an Igbo from the East, and Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello, two representatives of the North. This sample of memoirs reflects the discursive post-independence Nigeria in a decisive moment, revealing how these representative visionaries reflected on and responded to the daunting challenges that the newly independent Nigerian State had to contend with after almost a century of colonial rule. The analysis reveals how the clash of visions between these four indigenous perspectives and those of the key members of the international community plunged the nascent Nigerian project into contradiction; these then contingent gaps in the ramifying operational imaginations of key actors have remained almost unchanged, demonstrating how the narratives of that time set the parameters for the possibilities of development and peacebuilding in Nigeria today. |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-83768-250-8 |
| DOI: | 10.5772/intechopen.109144 |