This paper is an attempt to contribute to the debate on the role of students in political development and nation-building. Specifically, it is an analysis of the evolutionary and dynamic trends in the Nigerian student movement vis-a-vis the Nigerian state. It deals with the role that youth, and students in particular, could play in nation-building and political integration in a multiethnic, culturally heterogeneous, socially diversified and politically fragmented Nigerian state. The paper focuses on the role students should play in political mobilisation, especially during the current Nigerian transition programme and beyond.
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