Corporate social responsibility and sustainable development in Nigeria: The role of language rights

Abstract

Language remains a major vehicle through which values are communicated from one generation to another. In some climes in Africa, several languages are at the verge of extinction. Language rights are majorly advocated by minority groups. Primarily, CSR takes cognizance of the positive role companies play in ensuring that the society benefits from their activities. In addition, it protects the society from negative effect that the acts of corporate bodies may have on the society. Consequently, it argued that the practice of CSR is a socio-cultural phenomenon. Sustainable development (SD) is a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come (sometimes taught as ELF-Environment, Local people, Future). The term was used by the Brundtland Commission which coined what has become the most often-quoted definition of sustainable development as development that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs