Okpokwu Peace Rally, Magnificent Finale to a Local Conflict With a Global Context?

Standpoint Media Nigeria Limited | 19 September, 2019

Okpokwu Local Government Area is just one out of the many spaces of violence across recent Nigeria but a sociologically and locationally intriguing one too. There are sociological and locational questions when a hitherto typically peaceful, rural, poverty stricken Nigerian local government is seized by a violent turn largely internal to it but about which no one could do anything for four long years. Was it crisis of policing; cultism and criminality; unemployment induced aggression; a mini ‘clash of civilisation’; leadership/local elite failure; badly behaving politicians or a plain sign of state failure? Or, could some of these flashes of violence in least expected spots have a global context, be it in structural, hegemonic spatialising politics or whatever? After all, one of the United States National Intelligence Council, (NIC) scenario analyses had it that Africa will be up in flames of violence at this point in the 21st century.
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