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For all those interested in One Nigeria, here is a nice way to go about doing it. However, please be warned, the methods advised for this reality would be a little heavy handed. This is a 6 step solution to creation of an ethnic group which we will refer to as Nigerian.
Steps are:
1) Ban teaching of all traditional languages and pre-Independence history in the nations public schools. 2) Create tremendous incentives for people to relocate to non-indigenous regions of the country and use state media to promote cross ethnic marriages. 3) Create and enforce an anti-inflammatory law that would ban all ethnic/religious speech in public. 4) Alter the events of the Nigerian civil war by replacing the Igbos with foreign fighters from Cameroun. This would also be a nice rallying point for nationalism. 5) Charge and execute those that promote religious and ethnic violence. 6) Promote a circular society that shuns religion as a means of relieving religious tensions. 7) Ban all traditional garments from government jobs. And use the State controlled media to demonize traditional Garments. People would quickly begin wearing western style outfits only.
Once these steps are completed, in 30 years or less you would have a brown new ethnic group. However, you must enforce them with the full might of the nation. Any half assed attempt would only lead to more problems.
Let me know that you guys think about this idea. And note, I am aware that by doing this implementing this policy, thousands of years of culture and heritage would be loss. However, consider it a necessary evil that would end up being for the benefit of the country.
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I will add one. Creating a naming pattern that will be similar which all will bear; that is banning names like Yetunde, Abiola, Nosa, Chuka, Mohammed, etc and replacing them with either all English name - first and last- or a naming type.
One more, is changing the nations language to Swahili - although this was not helpful in Rwanda.