State of origin matters more than ethnicity now.
Nigerians rarely migrate to regions outside those of their ethnic origins. Some would prefer to resign than to be transferred outside their regions of origin. The main exceptions at all professional and artisan levels are the Igbo who tend to view travel as part of their education for the Billy Goat said that travel is good and that was why he visited his mother's kinfolk and learned how to pout to the sky.
The talk about indigenes and non indigenes in academic posts may be a thinly veiled reference to the fear of Igbo domination. The ethnicisation of university appointments started in the first republic when the premiere of the Western region, Akintola, insisted that 'sons of the soil' must be appointed to replace the two Igbo Vice Chancellors of the universities of Lagos and Ibadan while the Premeire of the Northern region, Bello, implemented s policy of the North for Northerners but in the East a Hausa Fulani was elected the first Mayor of Enugu..
In recent times, Igbo poor have been deported from Lagos state and Igbo voters hqd been threatened with drowning in the Lagoon if they failed to elect a governor preferred by local elites. The Igbo have also been issued a blanket quit notice from the North and a hate song was broqdcast against them inciting genocide. The Igbo states also discriminate against civil servants from other Igbo states because the high level of academic achievements among them makes competition for jobs more stiff, forcing more of the Igbo professionals and bus8mess owners to risk hatred by moving to other parts of the country. Often administrative posts in state universities are zoned from one senatorial zone to another as political appointments to reflect affirmative action kn9wn as federal character in Nigeria
It dies not really matter what the ethnic backgrounds of professors and Heads of Departments are if they are supported to produce innovative work with academic freedom and without fear of being fired or thrown out of official housing.
When the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar bragged that he would create employment for indigenes of Cross River State as an indigene himself, he was reminded by Eskor Toyo that it is a federal university and not a personal or ethnic fiefdom. In response Professor Toyo was ordered to move out from his official quarters because he had reached the mandatory retirement age. It took the inte4vention of the faculty union to secure a private accommodation for Toyo who was the national auditor of the union and who used to be from the same state until the creation of Akwa Ibom State. Ethnic chauvinism often goes beyond the in8tial utgroup target to affect ingroup members as Fanon warned with the pitfalls of national consciousness and as Ivory Coast experienced in the c8vil war over who was really Ivorian or Ivorite more than others .
Biko
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On Mon, 15/1/18, Cornelius Hamelberg <
corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Universities and ethnicities
To: "USA Africa Dialogue Series" <
usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Monday, 15 January, 2018, 16:45
In any
part of federal Nigeria, what would constitute "ethnic
affiliation to the institution" ?
On Monday, 15 January 2018
20:01:24 UTC+1, Toyin Falola wrote: In some Nigerian universities
except one is an indigene of the state he cannot become Head
of Department or Dean
https://t.co/mn2oxtMQPW Sent from my
iPhone
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