Abstract
. This paper addresses contested geographies of citizenship in Nigeria. There, a confluence of geo-historical forces (cultural pluralism, colonialism, the political economy of oil and military rule) has promoted the proliferation of competing formal citizenship containers-cum-states. The creation of new states, coupled with an exclusionary ideology, has given rise to fractured and dysfunctional spaces of citizenship in Nigeria. Attention is given to the meanings and experiences associated with these sub-national citizenship containers. The case study is also discussed in the broader terms of national state trajectories and citizenship geographies in Africa, where states are facing restructuring pressures from within and without.
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