Non-Formal Approach to Ethnicity: An Interpretative Explanation of Nigerian Peoples' Coping Mechanisms

This book, written by one of the foremost researchers in this field, represents one of the intellectual efforts on the explanation of the inter-ethnic phenomenon. The author went into the critique of the whole phenomenon and approached his frame of meaning from the actor’s side. That is why the book is subtitled “The peoples’ non-formal mechanisms”. The author is phenomenological in his approach and believes that the real meaning of any event should be based on the experience of the actors....