Nigeria: Is It Sunset For the Extended Family?
By Nathaniel Jonah
1 November 2009
Abuja — The family structure as we know it in Africa has been distorted as a result of a storm of economic and social factors. People today are becoming more individualistic, and the old sense of brotherhood which held society together is vanishing.
If the emerging trend in the contemporary Nigerian society is anything to go by, then the good old extended family system might as well be falling into the dust bin of history.It is strange that many elders have become street beggars in Nigeria. You may ask: where are the children of these elderly beggars? Obviously,the extended family system is fast disappearing leaving selfishness as a virtue.
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SOURCE: All Africa.Com
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