Abbo, Usman and Romle, Abd Rahim (2015) A Proposed Framework of Unemployment and Youth Restiveness in the North-Eastern Nigeria: Exloring the Role of the “Almajiri” Culture. Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 9 (14). pp. 45-52. ISSN 1991-8178
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Abstract
The paper examined the “Almajiri” culture and how it has contributed to unemployment, poverty and youth restiveness in the North-Eastern Nigeria. Using descriptive approach and contends analysis to generate empirical data, the paper discovered that “Almajiri” culture depicts a missing gap in the previous studies. In the sense that a causal relationship exist between the “Almajiri” culture and unemployment which lead to poverty and youth restiveness. More so as unemployment in Nigeria increase by 16% from 2011 to 2013 representing 39.9%, with youth unemployment representing 50% of this, where the north-eastern region continue to manifest the worst poverty rate compare to the other five geo-political zones couple with the existence of about 10 million “Almajiris” in the entire northern region which is much more than the total population of Sweden and the result of several investigation panels revealing the involvement of “Almajiri” in most of the violence occurring in the northern region from 1980 to 2010, where the vulnerability of the “Almajiri” due to abject poverty makes them a tool for unleashing violence by some unscrupulouselements. The paper therefore, concludes that unless the „Almajiri‟ culture is properly redefined and address the persistence violence in the northern Nigeria will continue to pose a serious threat to the corporate existence of Nigeria.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | unemployment, youth restiveness, Almajiri, culture |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Divisions: | School of Government |
| Depositing User: | Mdm. Rozana Zakaria |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jan 2025 10:32 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Jan 2025 10:32 |
| URI: | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31888 |
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