No Longer at Ease: Intellectuals and the Crisis of Nation-Statism in Nigeria in the 1990s

Intellectuals, traditional and modern, as producers and purveyors of knowledge, ideas and societal totems linked to identity, meaning, culture and politics, have always played critical roles in the construction of nationalism(s).This should not be taken to imply the denial of the more fundamental role of the masses – the
popular forces who seek national liberation, and whose anger and