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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ACADEMICS (IJCA)
ISSN 2536-7110 © 2018 VOL. 2(1), Pp. 1 - 8, © SEPTEMBER 2018
THE INFLUENCE OF PATRONAGE ON NON-LITERATE RURAL WOMEN:
ALAMU, ADEBOLA OMONIYI (MRS)
EMMANUEL ALAYANDE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, OYO.
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ABSTRACT
Patronage in Nigerian politics is increasing at an alarming rate, particularly on non-literate rural women who are vulnerable and at the lowest rung of the development ladder. This paper relying on secondary source of data, textbooks, journals, books and internet sources explains the concept of who non-literate rural women are, their peculiar characteristics like poverty, strong family ties, religious inclination, inability to read and write as factors which politicians play on and thereby releases patronage to them. This paper concludes that patronage is making non-literate rural women to be perpetually poor, underdeveloped, and their rural areas to lack infrastructural facilities and social amenities and therefore, recommends amongst others that the government should functionally empower non-literate women through adult education, vocational training and release of start-up capital as well as ensuring that true democracy is practiced in the country..
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