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Rethinking Language, Arts and Culture in an Evolving Democracy

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  • Emeka C. Ifesieh

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Democracy has been acclaimed as the best form of government practicable. Its core essence is that the authority of the government is a trust, which is lost once the government becomes a danger to the governed. Power-elites in evolving democracies, especially Nigeria, a pivotal state, consisting of north and south political divides, generate conceptualisations, (i.e., language: arts and culture) for sustenance of inequality. Using the heterogeneous purposive sampling, 7 texts produced by power-elites of Nigeria are selected and subjected to critical discourse analysis (CDA). The core assumptions of CDA are: language is both the site for power struggle and the instrument for domination and inequality. The Muslim northern Nigeria power-elites coercively dominate access to political discourse. The marginalised southern participants should strategically rethink their language to gain access to political discourse in the evolving democracy.

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  • Emeka C. Ifesieh, 2021. "Rethinking Language, Arts and Culture in an Evolving Democracy," Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Richtmann Publishing Ltd, vol. 10, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bjz:ajisjr:2037
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.36941/ajis-2021-0050
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    1. Omotor, Douglason G., 2019. "A Thrifty North and An Impecunious South: Nigeria's External Debt and the Tyranny of Political Economy," MPRA Paper 115292, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 12 Oct 2019.
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