Nigeria’s Ghana-must-go slogan, Pan-Africanist diplomacy and the mediation of African literature in the age of globalization and sustainable development goals
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2021
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AIPGG Journal of Humanities and Peace Studies
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The statement Ghana must Go is a trade name of a brand of a
utility bag in Nigeria. However, this nomenclature is a constant
reminder of the 1983 expulsion of Ghanaian nationals from
Nigeria. Since the expression is derogatory, it naturally threatens
the bilateral diplomatic relations between Nigeria and Ghana, and
portends a diplomatic row that has the potential to escalate. The
study was motivated by the principle of pan-Africanism as its
theoretical framework. The threat to the bilateral interaction
between Nigeria and Ghana is opposed to the realization of the
SDG Goal 16: Peace & Justice and this erodes the partnership
accord that the United Nations intends in SDG Goal 17. The
Consequence of this is that SDG Goal 8: Economic Growth is un
actualized because of diplomatic row. This goes against Goal 1: No
Poverty and Goal 2: Zero Hunger. The paper opines that African
literature is capable of healing the wound already caused. This is
because literature is a formidable tool for social enlightenment,
civil education, history preservation and popular source of societal
entertainment. The African Literature’s task of re-orientating the
Nigeria-Ghana civil societies is capable of averting the disaffection
from exacerbating. This task with which African literature could be
saddled, unavoidably, is appropriately discharged when the
prominent Nigerian and Ghanaian literary writers such as Wole
Soyinka write pacifist literary works. Other African nations need
contribute to the fence-mending efforts. By this, the disaffection
which the Ghana-must-Go Nigerian civil culture is capable of
engendering in the Nigeria-Ghana diplomacy will be subdued.
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Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3800152
AIPGG Journal of Humanities and Peace Studies Vol. 2. NO 1.2021
Keywords: African Literature, African culture, Pan-Africanism