ABSTRACT

Abstract

While globalization is well a twentieth century ideology, the phenomenon is as old as man’s development into groups and states. The idea of the world being a global village is quite novel but it is interestingly so that the phenomenon has always existed overtime. In time past, peoples of the world have related with each other in varying forms and Africa even before the colonial era was not exempted. Although this interaction has now come up in several writings as “inter-group relations”, what this paper hopes to establish is the claim that to use the term “inter-group relations” will be to oversimplify the kind of relationships that existed among nations in what we can refer to as globalization. It is in line with this that the paper argues from conceptualizing globalization and the nation that the Nigerian economy has been in global economic relations since pre-colonial times though differing in scope and measure from what exists today.

Keywords: globalization, Nigerian economy, nation, nation-state