Ethnicity is how individuals perceive themselves and, unlike race, can be changed. There are countries where different types of ethnic groups exist and in some cases this could lead to conflict within a country, but as research will show it is not the only cause and in some cases the conflict has been organized on purpose . In these cases it is usually a developing country, which is “defined by annual gross national income (GNI) per capita. Countries with a GNI of $11,905 or less are defined as developing (as specified by the World Bank, 2012).” (CITATION) Developing countries that have established themselves as democracies tend to have weak institutions, where elections are more about connections and winning, rather than trying to establish and follow formal rules. Nigeria is at the same time a developing country and with a weak democracy, there are many reasons for this, such as problems with natural resources and the inability to maintain a strong formal government, but mainly it all could be traced back to fact that it is a developing country with a weak democracy. it has a divided society where there is no sense of nationality. Divergence in a country does not mean violence, in fact in most cases places with many different ethnicities tend to be peaceful, but Nigeria is exempt from this because it has been, in a certain sense, programmed for all the different ethnicities and religions to meet are in conflict with each other by the English. Nigeria became a slave trading area for the British Empire around 1807, but they did not officially make it a colony until the 20th century. The British created Nigeria for the sole purpose of earning revenue; it is an “artificial country… colonial borders enclose more than 250 ethnic groups which has never been rough......between paper......national agreements, population, social statistics, political system." Nigeria The 1966 Coups, Civil War and Gowon Government: Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System, March 27, 2005. Web "Democracy and Governance in Nigeria: Reflections on 51 Years of Independence." Democracy and Governance in Nigeria: Reflections on 51 Years of Independence Np, nd Web. 9 April 2014. Draper, Alan and Ansil Ramsey: An Introduction to Comparative Politics. 2nd ed. New York : Pearson Longman, 2008. Print.Jensen, N. “Resource Wealth and Comparative Political Regimes in Africa 37.7 (2004): Print.Lijphart, Arend. “Constitutional Design for Divided Societies.” Journal of Democracy 15.2 (2004): 96-109.