Revival of Historical Foundations and Heritages through Education: Panacea for Peace and Security in Nigeria

Abstract

The alien nature of crimes in Nigeria has necessitated the need to look inward and find possible ways of reviving Nigeria’s historical foundation and heritage. It is against this backdrop that the objectives of this paper is conceived and anchored. Suitably historical analysis was employed in this paper in order to identify features of historical foundations and heritages of Nigeria and to find the missing link between traditional educations and present violent prone modernized Nigeria. Oral traditions and craft works form the major features of historical foundation and heritages in Nigeria. These historical foundations and heritages afterwards subconsciously generate among young people character formation, leadership training, skills and vocational training, and other basis of traditional education. However, the relegation of historical foundation and heritage is believed to have resulted into poor character formation, belligerent nationalism, laziness and corrupt leadership which are the major causes of insecurity in Nigeria. It is therefore, recommended that families and schools should rejuvenate these historical foundations and heritages that promotes peace and collective security in Nigeria.

DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2013.v3n6p69