Keyword : Nation Building, Lion Heart, Partnership, Equity Theory, Theory of Partnership.
Author(s) : Faith Godwin Ebunuwele And Ambrose Oroboh Uchenunu, Ph.D
Abstract :
The incessant ethnoreligious conflicts coupled with the issues of corruption and injustice have made the quest for nation-building a mirage in the Nigerian political milieu. Nation building in the context of this study is the economic, social, cultural, and political construction of a nation for peace, productivity, and development. This study is predicated on the nation-building narratives in the Nollywood movie Lion Heart. The movie presents a clear case of personalities from two different ethnic backgrounds coming together to work as partners not only for business growth but also to send a message that people of different backgrounds and ethnic groups in Nigeria can work together for the development of the country. The researchers identified the macrostructure and macro structural elements of nation-building depicted in the movie and employed a qualitative method of research utilizing Van Dihk's semantic macrostructure analysis to examine the thematic structure and elements of the selected media text. The researchers anchored the study on equity theory and aggregate theory of partnership and adopted the qualitative method of research utilizing Van Dihk semantic macrostructure analysis to examine the thematic structure and elements of the selected media text for this study. The findings from this study indicated that nation-building is feasible, irrespective of the cultural diversity of the country. The macrostructure of
family, entrepreneurship, culture, and integration depicted in the Lion Heart are national
resources that can be positively harnessed for the nation-building of the country. The
researchers, therefore, recommend that structure of family, entrepreneurship, culture,
and integration should be embedded in the country’s framework of national
development and nation-building.
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