ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some dimensions of sustainability within Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria.1 The discussion presented in the first part of the chapter reveals contradictions between apparent unsustainability with respect to Nigeria’s ongoing economic, political and environmental crises; and sustainability at the sub-national level in regard to the distinctively unique cultural setting of Hausaland in North Nigeria. This major region of high population density appears to exhibit strong environmental, social and economic sustainability through highly productive intensive peasant farming, a distinctively cohesive social fabric and thriving agricultural markets. This is illustrated by empirical case study material from a Northern Nigerian village.2
