Unveiling Conflict Trajectories in New Industrial Localities in Nigeria: Observations from Obajana

Industrial penetration into historically rural communities disrupts the people’s socio-economic life and relation to land, and creates conditions that produce conflicts. However, there is a paucity of empirical work on the processes that shape conflicts across layers of rural communities experiencing the penetration of industrial activities in sub-Saharan Africa. This article examined the processes/paths that produce conflicts when industrial activities are established in local communities, with Obajana, Nigeria, as a case study. It utilized the qualitative methods and observed that the penetration of industrial activities into Obajana affected access to land and generated conflict at the tribal and inter-tribal levels.