Quality of life in rural Nigeria: three and half decades following Igbozurike and Raza

Qualité de vie dans le Nigeria rural: trois décennies et demie après Igbozurike et Raza

Faisal C Emetumah (1)

1 Imo State University, Owerri

It has been 35 years since Igbozurike and Raza (1983), and rural communities in Nigeria continue to face many of the challenges identified in the ARMTI seminar. Poverty and rural-urban migration remain widespread in Nigeria. Further issues of security and terrorism have also made their way into the array of problems facing rural communities in Nigeria. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to review the issues affecting the quality of life in 21st century rural Nigeria, in order to ascertain what has changed or remained the same since 1983. In achieving the study aim, the parameters used by Igbozurike and Raza (1983) will be linked with current literature on the quality of life in rural Nigeria. The paper will look at the following parameters: socioeconomic indicators, social services and infrastructure, nutritional status, population structure and mobility, institutional frameworks and the role of Agricultural Development Projects (ADPs).

Mots clés: Rural Area; Nigeria; development; Igbozurike

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Faisal C Emetumah. Quality of life in rural Nigeria: three and half decades following Igbozurike and Raza. Two Worlds Straddled: Festschrift for a Geographer, Professor Uzo M. Igbozurike, 2019, 978-978-56408-8-5. ⟨hal-03202433⟩