Issues of Promoting Good Neighbourliness in Igbominaland: A Historical Analysis
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2015-10
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The nexus of this paper bothers on some dilemmatic issues of promoting good neighbourliness, with particular reference to the Igbomina-Yoruba. It argues that both in the past and present, the Igbomina have constantly fallen casualty of their peaceful disposition and suffered the boomerang effect of their good neighbourliness; being victims of the very people they had showered hospitality and displayed magnanimity upon. They have often received folks and foes they could have successfully repelled, in the first instance. The paper adopts the historical, narrative and analytical approach, with a combination of primary and secondary sources of data collection, media reports as well as researcher's general personal observations over the years. The findings of the study point to the fact that Igbomina, today, is a product of three significant factors: geography, history and the character of her people. These made her susceptible to series of foreign attacks and impostors, from local (Nupe, Fulani/Ilorin, Ibadan) and British imperial onslaughts. This study is an extrapolation of the interplay of history and the esoteric law of 'Cause and Effect' on the Igbomina. How and why the hospitable Igbomina have often been subjected to such a harrowing and protracted ill-treatment by hostile neighbours and aliens they have been magnanimous to, undoubtedly deserve some attention. Concisely, this study elucidates the traumatic experience of the Igbomina vis-à-vis her many neighbours. It recommends among others, a symbiotic concerted commitment of all communities towards embracing the traditional ethics and universal principles of good neighbourliness as enunciated by the United Nations. It, therefore, concludes that for the Igbomina, with the unabated Bororo-Fulani infiltration and menace, the past is in the present. This portends a serious danger-signal and the thrust of the present dilemma.
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Conference paper presented at the 60th Annual Conference of the Historical Society of Nigeria (HSN)
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Good Neighbourliness, Igbominaland, Dilemma, Hospitality
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Aboyeji, A. J. ''Issues of Promoting Good Neighbourliness in Igbominaland: A Historical Analysis’’ Presented at the 60th Annual Conference of the Historical Society of Nigeria (HSN) in Collaboration with the Department of History and Diplomatic Studies, University of Abuja, Nigeria: "Historical Society of Nigeria @ 60: A National Experience" 11th -14th October, 2015.