Nigeria: in search of citizens?
Around the world a growing crisis of legitimacy characterises the relationship between citizens and the institutions that affect their lives. The project of defining, indeed of understanding, citizenship in Nigeria is seen by the authors of this Briefing as an engagement in a journey of disconnection between a primal conception of an indigenous sense of being and the notion of an entity beyond that confine of indigenousness. In response to this gap between citizens and their institutions, people are struggling to find new forms of citizenship, participation and accountability.