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Peer-Led Eco-Dialogue Circles for Improving Household Waste Segregation Practices among Market Women in Calabar, Cross River State Theresa Nkim Omang; Nandi Mary Ala
Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Dialektika Kontemporer Vol 14, No 1 (2026)
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Improper household waste management remains a pressing environmental and public health challenge in urban Nigeria. Market women, who are central to both the generation and potential reduction of domestic waste, represent a critical yet underexplored audience for behaviour change interventions. This study evaluated the effectiveness of Peer-Led Eco-Dialogue Circles (EDCs), a community-based participatory intervention, in improving household waste segregation practices among market women in Calabar, Cross River State. Using a quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test control group design, 200 market women were purposively assigned to an intervention group (n = 100), which participated in eight weekly EDC sessions, or a control group (n = 100), which received standard public health messaging. The EDCs were facilitated by trained peer leaders who guided discussions on waste types, environmental consequences of indiscriminate disposal, and practical segregation techniques, culminating in a collective commitment to separate organic, recyclable, and non-recyclable waste. Data were collected at baseline, immediately after the intervention, and at a three-month follow-up using structured questionnaires, household waste bin audits, and focus group discussions. Results showed that the intervention group significantly improved their waste segregation knowledge (p < .001), attitudes (p < .001), and self-reported practices compared to the control group. Direct bin audits revealed that the proportion of households correctly segregating waste rose from 12% at baseline to 78% post-intervention in the intervention group, with 64% maintaining the practice at follow-up, while the control group remained below 15% across all time points. Qualitative findings highlighted the role of peer solidarity, practical learning, and social accountability in sustaining behaviour change. The study demonstrates that peer-led dialogue approaches are both feasible and effective for promoting pro-environmental behaviours among informal sector women in urban Nigeria. Policy implications for integrating EDCs into municipal waste management strategies are discussed.

The Effect of Organisational Culture on Commercial Banks' Performance in Tanzania: Applying the Denison Model Evaristus Ifeanyi Odoh
Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Dialektika Kontemporer Vol 14, No 1 (2026)
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Despite the numerous dialects that exist within a single language community, there is always a particular variety recognised and accepted by all as the standard dialect for formal communication. The learning of French language pronunciation has remained a persistent challenge among French language students in Nigerian universities. Given that the current wave of technological advancement in foreign language learning methodology has not yet permeated every corner of the educational landscape, particularly in Nigeria, there is no better alternative than to harness recorded authentic instructional materials and films to facilitate the learning and pronunciation of French as a foreign language in our universities. This article examines the difficulties encountered in the learning of French pronunciation in Nigerian universities and higher institutions of learning. It reviews existing theories on the acquisition of proper pronunciation in the learning of French as a foreign language, as well as the instructional means of teaching French pronunciation through recorded materials. The paper also presents instructional procedures to be followed in order to achieve proper and acceptable oral production of French through the use of recorded instructional materials.

Epistemic Justice, Decoloniality, and the Nigerian University: A Case for Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Higher Education Thomas Ogar; Inusah Awuni; George Aboka
Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Dialektika Kontemporer Vol 14, No 1 (2026)
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The Nigerian university system stands at a critical juncture. Since its establishment during the colonial era, the university has been modelled on Western paradigms that systematically marginalise indigenous knowledge systems (IKS). This epistemic injustice, this paper argues, is not a contingent feature of Nigerian higher education but is constitutive of its postcolonial structure. Drawing on Miranda Fricker's concept of epistemic injustice (testimonial and hermeneutical) and the decolonial literature on epistemicide (Boaventura de Sousa Santos), the paper examines how Nigerian universities perpetuate a form of epistemic violence against indigenous ways of knowing. Using case studies of Ifá divination (Yoruba knowledge system), Bekwarra agrarian philosophy, and traditional ecological knowledge in the Niger Delta, the paper demonstrates that IKS are not pre‑logical or proto‑scientific but constitute sophisticated epistemological systems with their own criteria for justification, standards of evidence, and practices of inquiry. The paper analyses the colonial history of Nigerian university education, the persistence of Eurocentric curricula, and the structural barriers to the legitimation of IKS. It argues that the exclusion of IKS from Nigerian higher education is not merely a matter of cultural loss but constitutes a form of epistemic violence that harms both the knowers whose knowledge is devalued and the broader society deprived of alternative epistemic resources. The paper concludes with a proposal for the decolonial transformation of the Nigerian university through the integration of IKS into curricula, research methodologies, and assessment practices, grounded in the principles of epistemic justice and cognitive decolonisation. It argues that such transformation is not only an ethical imperative but an intellectual necessity for addressing Nigeria's most pressing challenges, from environmental degradation to healthcare delivery to sustainable agriculture.

The Global Malaise of Oil Spillages and Legal Implications: Detailing Reactions from the Mauritius Oil Spillage and Malaysia Oil Spill Pascal Bekongfe Aboh; Precious Eni; Sunday Macaulay Uba; Mercy Ushiome Ajuka
Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Dialektika Kontemporer Vol 14, No 2 (2026)
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It is often said that there is a price to every battle; a gladiator’s willingness to pay that price is what defines him. Global oil exploration has been a game of trade-offs. In order to dig deep and draw out this black gold, the trade-off has been aquatic life, flora and fauna, global warming, and oil spillage. This work navigates the global malaise of oil spillages using the experience of Mauritius as a trajectory for mapping out a more precautionary path to deep-sea oil exploration vis-à-vis simple lessons from Malaysian handling of their own oil spills. Within the journey, it is prospected that there will be lessons for Nigeria and African oil giants. The final summation is that a contingency plan must always be handy, and environmental dangers need to be taken more seriously than they are being considered right now. One must also recommend cross-border cooperation to fight the malaise of global oil spillages. The implications of unchecked regular spillages would be catastrophic doom for the planet and retrogression of the push for sustainable development, and this must be avoided.

Fear of Missing Out, Social Media Addiction, and Sleep Quality as Predictors of Academic Procrastination Among Nigerian Undergraduates: A Serial Mediation Model Adesina Amusa; Ogungbemi-Temitope Anuoluwapo Ebenezer; Tolulope Adebola Yamah
Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Dialektika Kontemporer Vol 14, No 1 (2026)
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The pervasive integration of social media into the daily lives of Nigerian undergraduates has raised urgent concerns about its implications for academic functioning, yet the pathways through which online social anxieties translate into maladaptive academic behaviours remain insufficiently understood. This study investigated the predictive relationship between fear of missing out (FoMO) and academic procrastination, examining social media addiction and sleep quality as serial mediators within a structural model. Guided by the Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) framework for internet-use disorders, a cross-sectional survey design was employed. A purposive sample of 684 undergraduates from four universities across South-Western Nigeria completed a battery of validated instruments, including the Fear of Missing Out Scale, the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and the Procrastination Assessment Scale-Students. Data were analysed using structural equation modelling with bootstrapped confidence intervals. Results revealed that FoMO did not exert a significant direct effect on academic procrastination (β = .08, p = .11). However, the indirect effect via social media addiction alone was significant (β = .14, p < .001), and the serial indirect effect through social media addiction and sleep quality sequentially was also significant (β = .09, p < .001), indicating full mediation. The hypothesised model accounted for 31% of the variance in academic procrastination. These findings suggest that the anxiety of being socially disconnected drives compulsive social media engagement, which in turn degrades sleep quality and ultimately manifests as academic self-regulatory failure. The study underscores the need for campus-wide digital wellness interventions that address not only time management but also the emotional and physiological mechanisms linking social media use to academic behaviour. University counselling centres in Nigeria should consider incorporating sleep hygiene and cognitive restructuring of online social anxieties into existing academic support programmes.

Chi, Moral Luck, and the Ethics of Responsibility: An Igbo Response to the Problem of Moral Luck Leonard Nwoye
Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Dialektika Kontemporer Vol 14, No 2 (2026)
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The Igbo concept of Chi names the personal providence or guardian spirit believed to shape an individual's destiny, yet the literature is divided over whether Chi functions as a determinism that absolves the agent of responsibility or as a non-deterministic principle that preserves human agency. This paper intervenes in that debate by reframing Chi as an Igbo contribution to the contemporary philosophical problem of moral luck: the question of how far agents are responsible for outcomes shaped by factors beyond their control. It asks what conception of responsibility is embedded in the Igbo practice of appealing to Chi in the face of failure, and whether that conception can be defended philosophically rather than dismissed as fatalism. Drawing on conceptual analysis of Chi in Igbo metaphysics, engaging the recent rapprochement between Chi and Hegel's cunning of reason, and drawing on the moral luck literature initiated by Williams and Nagel, the paper argues that Chi is best understood not as a rival causal force that competes with human agency, but as a structuring condition of agency itself, one that distributes outcomes between fortune and effort without dissolving accountability. It defends the view that the Igbo maxim that a person may try and yet Chi refuse is not an excuse but a recognition of the limits of human control, and that this recognition is compatible with a demanding ethic of practical effort. The paper contends that Chi thus offers a non-Western resolution to the tension between accountability and fortune, and it concludes by drawing out the implications of this account for debates on moral responsibility, blame, and the ethics of failure.

The Shadow of the Center: Constitutional Heteronomy and the Political Logic of Local Autonomy in Nigeria Peter Piringkwap Maigari
Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Dialektika Kontemporer Vol 13, No 2 (2025): Juli – December 2025
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Nigerian local government occupies an unusual constitutional position. It is guaranteed as a tier of government by the 1999 Constitution, its functions are listed in the Fourth Schedule, and since the Supreme Court's judgment of 11 July 2024 in Attorney General of the Federation v Attorney General of Abia State it has been held entitled to receive federal allocations directly, bypassing the State Joint Local Government Account through which governors had long channelled and withheld local funds. The judgment has been celebrated as a vindication of grassroots autonomy. This article argues that the celebration is premature, because the constitutional position of Nigerian local government is heteronomous rather than autonomous. Local government did not create itself, does not define its own powers, and does not control the terms of its own financing. It is a creature of the federal centre, brought into constitutional existence by the military reforms of 1976 and entrenched in the 1979 and 1999 constitutions without ever acquiring the status of a federating unit. The article develops the concept of constitutional heteronomy to describe this arrangement, distinguishing it from federal autonomy on the one hand and mere administrative delegation on the other. It then reconstructs the genealogy of local government from the 1976 Dasuki reforms through the 1999 Constitution, analyses the fiscal architecture of Section 162 and the State Joint Local Government Account, and reads the 2024 judgment as an episode in the centre's long-standing strategy of using local autonomy as an instrument of central discipline over the states. The political logic of Nigerian local autonomy, the article concludes, is centripetal rather than decentralist, and the current constitutional reform proposals will reproduce that logic unless they give local government an independent constitutional foundation rather than a better-administered dependency.

Cultural Values and the Crisis of Development: A Critique of African Governance Through Anyiam-Osigwe’s Holistic Philosophy Owere Ejidje Iliaro; Ogonegbu Festus Chukwunweike
Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Dialektika Kontemporer Vol 13, No 2 (2025): Juli – December 2025
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Africa’s persistent underdevelopment despite its vast human and material resources reflects a deep-seated philosophical and cultural crisis. The background of this study identifies governance failures, corruption, and moral decay as symptoms of a wider disconnection between indigenous African values and imported political systems. The problem lies in the erosion of communal ethics mutuality, reciprocity, and collective responsibility that once sustained pre-colonial societies, replaced by individualism and materialism that fragment governance and hinder progress. This paper examines these challenges through the lens of Emmanuel Onyechere Anyiam-Osigwe’s holistic philosophy, which emphasizes the “group mind,” moral integrity, and spiritual consciousness as the basis of authentic development. Using the method of philosophical analysis and hermuentics, the study analyses primary and secondary sources, including works by other African philosophers to interpret governance crises in relation to cultural dislocation. The findings reveal that Africa’s development stagnation stems not merely from economic or political inefficiencies but from moral and spiritual alienation disrupting communal harmony. The study also finds that gender imbalance and loss of spiritual consciousness further weaken leadership ethics and institutional accountability. It concludes that reclaiming cultural values through Anyiam-Osigwe’s holistic philosophy anchored on introspection, communal ethics, and divine interconnectedness can restore moral vision, strengthen governance, and promote sustainable development. The paper therefore advocates for policy reforms, value-based education, and culturally grounded leadership as essential pathways to Africa’s holistic renewal.

Beyond the Binary: African Feminist Critiques of Western Gender Theory and the Epistemology of Complementarity Mary Julius Egbai
Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Dialektika Kontemporer Vol 13, No 2 (2025): Juli – December 2025
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Western feminist theory has long been structured around the critique of patriarchy and the binary opposition of male and female. However, African feminist scholars have argued that this binary framework is inadequate for understanding gender relations in African societies, where pre-colonial gender systems were often characterised by complementarity rather than hierarchy. This paper examines the concept of gender complementarity in African feminist thought, drawing on the work of Ifi Amadiume, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, and Nkiru Nzegwu. It argues that the Western feminist insistence on a universal patriarchy has functioned as a form of epistemic violence, erasing the distinctive features of African gender systems and imposing an alien analytical framework. The paper proposes an epistemology of complementarity that recognises the fluidity and context-dependence of gender relations in African societies while remaining attentive to the real inequalities that women experience. It contributes to the decolonisation of feminist philosophy by centring African intellectual traditions as sources of theoretical innovation rather than as objects of Western analysis.

Naming, Identity, and Sovereignty in International Relations: A Study of Geopolitical Disputes and Recognition Politics Etete Gregory Mbey; Komomo Okoi Itam; Angela Ajimase
Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Dialektika Kontemporer Vol 14, No 1 (2026)
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Naming is a powerful political instrument in international relations because it shapes identity, legitimacy, sovereignty, and diplomatic recognition. Across global politics, disputes over names are not merely linguistic disagreements. They are fundamental struggles over history, territorial integrity, national identity, and international status. This article examines the relationship between naming, sovereignty, and recognition politics through selected geopolitical case studies. These include the Prespa Agreement between Greece and North Macedonia, the international status of Taiwan under the One China policy, and the contested recognition of Kosovo. Using a qualitative analytical approach grounded in constructivist theory, the study argues that names function as symbols of political authority and collective identity in the international system. The article demonstrates that naming disputes influence diplomatic relations, access to international organizations, treaty negotiations, and global legitimacy. It further reveals that international actors, including states and multilateral organizations, often use naming practices strategically to support geopolitical interests. The study concludes that naming remains an essential dimension of contemporary international relations because it affects both symbolic and material aspects of global politics. Consequently, diplomatic solutions to naming disputes require sensitivity to historical memory, cultural identity, and political sovereignty.

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