Chapter 4 A nation in search of citizens: Problems of citizenship in the Nigerian context

<A>Introduction: Framing citizenship in colonial Nigeria In exploring issues of citizenship in Nigeria, we need to begin with the history of how we came to be Nigerians (or how we are not!). What is now known as Nigeria is the product of the British colonial imagination; a patchwork country whose component parts have refused to fuse as one (Okwori 2003). Although th