To understand why Nigeria continues to struggle with cohesion in critical sectors such as healthcare, education, and public administration, one need only examine the foundations of our basic education, particularly the Junior Secondary School (JSS) History curriculum.
At that formative level, Nigerian children are introduced to a problematic classification of their own society. Certain ethnic groups are described as “centralized” political systems, implicitly advanced, while others are labeled “non-centralized,” a term that subtly but powerfully suggests primitiveness or institutional inferiority.
