AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY AND THE EFFECTS OF TERRORISM ON NIGERIA‟S INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

With the different degrees of violence, hostilities and accompanying suspicions and tensed moments experienced in Nigeria today, it seems Nigeria can be comfortably named as one of the homes to acts of violence best described as terrorism. With phenomenology as a method employed in this study, it unearths unjust structure occasioned by the colonizers as the primary cause of terrorism in Nigeria. And that this unjust structure is today being sustained by some elements in Nigeria, hence, the pronounced nature of the problem under study. With these findings, the paper concludes that, with a re-thinking of the status quo flowing from genuine dialogue, acts of terrorism as experienced in Nigeria will be reduced to its barest minimum if not entirely eradicated.