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Africa is pictured by the media as an irreversibly damaged region whose salvation lies beyond its parochial capabilities. The region has been periodically hounded by man-made and natural disasters. Nigeria, however, is not the typical African nation the media is reporting. It boasts resources and capabilities essential to becoming a regional giant. Nigeria looks forward to realigning the relationships of West African states after having successfully formed a formidable industrial base for development and industrialization.

The article discusses workers consciousness in a capitalist society. Workers always enter into industrial wage labor for the first time with assumptions concerning the correct relationship between employee and employer, master and servant, or patron and client. Oftentimes, these norms are drawn from a precapitalist system or mode of production that. Initially at least, exists side by side with industrial capitalism. Varying by social boundary and origin, the second kind of consciousness draws upon, and indeed is structured by, sentiments of community the basis of this community may be defined in religious, ethnic, regional, racial, or linguistic terms. And the critical feature of membership in this community is acceptance of a common set of beliefs, ideologies, institutions, and organizations that orient and reproduce the community both materially and ideologically. When a community achieves significance in terms of size, or when membership is open rather than ascribed by birth alone, or when a distinct territory is claimed by that community then such a group forms a nation.