Applying Biblical Principium for Monumentalizing Independence: Towards Consolidating the Curriculum in Civic Educational Contexts of Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria
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This study deducted data from the Biblical book of Exodus 13:3-16, to look at an overriding principium for monumentalizing the achievement of independence by a nation, towards consolidating the curriculum in civic educational contexts similar to those consequential from British colonial educational legacies in Northern Nigeria. Accordingly, data from Exodus 13:3-16 was analyzed as a basis and principium by which independence could be considered to be a meaningful event worth monumentalizing in the life of a nation, such as Nigeria. A key purpose of the study was to consider the colonial educational legacies that need to be addressed using the Biblical principium for monumentalizing independence, towards consolidating civic education via the curriculum in post-colonial Northern Nigeria. To this end, findings made are briefed here via three notations. Firstly, the Jews considered independence from Egypt as meaning freedom for them to have their own kind of leadership under God. By applying this to Nigeria, it can be held when Nigerians line up to exercise their civic duties and franchise by voting people to political leadership positions, their votes should count; in this the societal curriculum would be positively expressed and strengthen through this civic participatory process. Those elected in a free and fair election should be declared winners; doing otherwise could amount to inviting the “mighty hand” hand of God upon the country. Secondly, civic education could still be required as a core general subject at the post-foundational levels of education in Nigeria, whereby the constitution in its entirety would be treated as a major section of the course. This is a way of stressing (deliberately) that it is a subject of significance. Thirdly, whether in the situation of the Jews or of Nigeria, independence (with all its consequences attached) makes a nation responsible for its own actions.
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