An ethos of hospitality as public morality in the face of the disorderly process in Nigeria today?
Date
2015
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Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust
Abstract
Nigeria, a highly populated country in West Africa, has for the past five years been embroiled in turmoil. Agitation arising from displacement of a large number of people coupled with alienation in their own ancestral lands and homes, due to activities of the unpopular Islamic sect, Boko Haram (roughly translated in English as “Western education is an abomination”). This radical religious sect seeks in the most poignant way, to create a wide gap for its own conceived Islamic world order by killing, dispossessing, kidnapping and alienating people, especially in the north-eastern part of Nigeria, bordering Cameroon, Chad and Niger Republics. Economic, religious, cultural and political lives of the locals including Muslims are destroyed. No end is in sight. However, in the face of hostility, hatred, injustice, disorder, despair and an attempt to create order, a new form of public morality is desperately needed in Nigeria, today. The questions then are: what is this public morality? How can a public morality be facilitated to salvage such a disturbing situation?
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CITATION: Akper, G. I. 2015. An ethos of hospitality as public morality in the face of the disorderly process in Nigeria today? Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 1(2):283–298, doi:10.17570/stj.2015.v1n2.a13.
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Keywords
Nigeria, Boko Haram
Citation
Akper, G. I. 2015. An ethos of hospitality as public morality in the face of the disorderly process in Nigeria today? Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 1(2):283–298, doi:10.17570/stj.2015.v1n2.a13.