After the war there were between three to four million freemen mostly ex slaves of southern states origin who have won emancipation from their former owners. Their future and mode of reintegration into the white dominated the southern society became a major problem to the victories federal government.
As early as 2500 BC people lived in the past of the middle east. The middle east became the first place in the world to practice agriculture. Prior to this period all the worlds people gathered wild fruits. The domestication of plants and animals that sets humans on its path of increasing complexity originated in the middle east.
The Federation of Nigeria is it is known today, has never really been a homogenous country for its widely differing people and tribes. This obvious fact notwithstanding the former colonial masters decide to keep the country as one in order to effectively control the resources for their economic interests.
Today the UN classifies 73% of West African states as least developed countries. ECOWAS accounts for 35% for the African LCDS making West Africa the foremost LCD region in Africa, and indeed the world as a whole.
The Historians’ goal is not to collect the facts about the past but rather to acquire insights into the ideas and realities that shaped the past lives of men and women of earlier societies. Some of the decisions and institutions may seem alien to us, others may seem all too familiar to us. But in other case when we study the people of the past what we are really learning about is the rich diversity of human culture.
Nigeria with over 300 ethnic groups, over 1000 dialects who practised several religions with different cultures and histories came under the British imperialist in the 19th century. With the 1st January amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorate the foundation of a nation now called Nigeria was laid. Nigeria is now populated with over 160 million people, adopted federal systems of government with 36 states and a federal capital territory.
The issue of inter relation groups in nation building is not new as it has attracted scholarly attention for some decades now. As reoccurring as this subject may have been to analyst of inter- group relations in Nigeria, it can not be abandoned because of the direction it has taken threatens the existence of the country.
“Philosophy” is a word you will have came across at one time or the other. Can you define “philosophy”? The original meaning of philosophy as conceived by the Greeks is as follows: Philein – meaning love Sophia – meaning wisdom i.e. philein, Sophia crystallized into “Love of wisdom”, where wisdom means the ability to relate the facts from various forms of knowledge to experience. The English dictionary meaning of philosophy is diverse (Oxford Dictionary 2001). Philosophy is de...
In the first book of the metaphysics of Aristotle there is an emphasis on how all naturally desire to know. The basics desire of man is the desire of knowledge. In life he wonders about his immediate environment. That is he begins to reflect on nature as reality presents himself around him at a particular time and space in a specific language and culture.
By the time that Renee Descartes was born the new influence of the preceding of two centuries has taken effect. The astronomy has displaced the earth from the center of the universe and Galileo has formulated the laws of mechanics which experiment not scripture would confirm.
It is difficult if not impossible to give a precise definition of Philosophy. In fact, the issue of the definition of Philosophy is as controversial as controversy itself. Consequently, there are different basis of opinions regarding what constitutes the subject matter of philosophy. However, the broadest and of course of the oldest conception of philosophy is the etymological conception.
The issues of human rights to me touches on our moral nerves because of its intrinsic and extrinsic value to human existence. The UNO, African Union and commonwealth and other organisations that are involved In addressing human rights abuses by different government and societies all over the world appear to be the moral conscience of the world.
Existentialism and Phenomenology are two of the most influential movements in twentieth philosophy. During the heyday of Existentialism in the middle decades of the twentieth century there were heated arguments about whether the movements belonged together or were even compatible with each other.
Ever since Plato philosophers have been impressed by the fact that there are universal propositions which we can apparently know to be true with absolute certainty though we could not possibly observe all or even a large proportion of the instances to which they apply.
History is replete with bittersweet ironies. But few of these compare in the poignancy or magnitude to the association between the Atlantic slave trade and the subsequent expansion of Christianity on the African continent. As with so many epochal turning points in history, people movement provided the seed plot.