Inter-ethnic relations in a Nigerian city

Introduction The character of the problems faced by most urban centres of the world of over population, high criminal tendencies, shortage of social amenities and the like, can be explained within the context of Louis Wirth’s definition of ‘city’. According to Wirth, a city is ‘a relatively dense and permanent settlement of heterogenous individuals’. The heterogeneity of most Nigerian cities is largely due to population movement from the rural areas, or the in some cases, from one ‘disturbed’...