Dialectical Nigerianism: Ethnic Militancy and Sectarian Insurgency as Antithesis of the Ruling Class Ideology

Abstract

Years of training in humanistic education, especially, years of training in literary education expose the person undergoing the training to both macro and micro information types of culture, politics, history, religion, sociology, human psychology and philosophy. The person that has undergone this type of training, essentially, transforms these information types to knowledge. He or she even goes further to transform the knowledge into judgment and action –that is, he or she uses knowledge in a concrete and practical way. The objective of this paper was to study the flaws of dialectical materialism and see how these flaws could be recycled in order to produce a new concept, the concept of dialectical Nigerianism, which stipulates that societies as Nigeria does not have those indicators to make dialectical materialism applicable. Hegelian Dialectics and Marxist Dialectics are theoretical frameworks the work will depend on to evolve the concept of Dialectical Nigerianism. Moreover, dialectical Nigerianism argues that since the perfect mode of production anticipated through dialectical materialist knowledge application was utopia, dialectical materialism is, therefore, metaphysical. Therefore, the method of approach will be such whereby dialectical Nigerianism would integrate empiricism and idealism in the quest to create a new order for Nigeria.