Through colonialism and the assimilation of foreign values, people in the excolony are now a cultural hybrid. The local elites who occupy the commanding heights in policy/decision making in Nigeria have been at the forefront of the acceptance and transmission of this new cultural product though various channels, an important part of which is the media. Nigerian women are a growing and active part of this elite structure. One important consequence of the merging of the external component of imperialism which is still being fuelled in the neo-colonial setting by the reality of dependency and economic restructuring and the local component of imperialism, is that it is now difficult to continue to see imperialism strictly as an external imposition.
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