Subjectivity and Ethnocentric Leadership Approaches in Tackling the Nigerian Question

 

Frank O. Amugo

Chief Lecturer, Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic, Port Harcourt.Verified email at portharcourtpoly.edu.ng

IJAH, VOL.7(4), S/N 27, SEPTEMBER, 2018 

Subjectivity and Ethnocentric   Leadership Approaches in Tackling the Nigerian Question

Amugo, Frank, & Chinda, D., Izeoma, C. 

Department of Foundation Studies 

Port Harcourt Polytechnic Rumuola, Port Harcourt 

Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria 

E-mail: frankamugo@yahoo.com; 

Phone: +2348037063542.

Abstract 

Subjectivity has been an all-important concept for academic research, as well as used as a tool for 

intervening in social and political life of a people, since the 1960s and 1970s. The idea of subjectivity 

had a catalytic impact in changing the terms of the debate in History and Social Sciences, postcolonial 

theory, gender studies, cultural and media studies, social theory, and the other disciplines in the 

humanities. Subjectivity which relates to the quality of possessing perspectives and experiences, 

feelings, beliefs, desires, and power employed in the attempt at explanation for what influences, and 

informs people’s judgment about truth or reality. In this paper, we shall attempt to examine the role of 

leaders of the Nigerian state in tackling the challenges/problems faced by the various sections of the Nigerian polity. These problems include, religious crisis, marginalization, resource equity, among 

others, and they constitute the National question. The paper concludes that the difficulty in answering 

the Nigerian question, to a large extent, result from the influence of subjectivity in viewing and tackling 

these problems by successive leaders emerging mainly from the majority tribes of the country.