Building Nomadic Fulani Capacity through Education for Sustainable Peace in Ikara District, Kaduna State, Nigeria

Abstract

The paper explore how building the nomadic Fulani capacity through education for actualization of sustainable peace in Ikara district. Methodologically, the study was a qualitative case study, in Ikara district, Kaduna, Nigeria. Data was obtain through interviews and analyzed thematically. From the data obtained, two themes derived were firstly; social consequences of deficient in education; subthemes; distrust and misunderstanding, youth redundancy, poverty, and crime, secondly; the Fulani understanding of education; as a tool for sustainable Fulani capacity building and empowerment for sustainable peace. It was concluded that, building nomadic Fulani capacity through education is a viable tool in achieving sustainable community empowerment in peace, and free them out of the social consequences of their deficiency in education. Thus, the study recommended that, government must invest hugely for nomadic Fulani to have access to quality education and engage the Fulani in advocacy and awareness on the significance of building their capacity through education for sustainable community empowerment in peace.