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Author : Lev Naumovich Pribytovskiĭ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : NWU:35556012157509
Author : Toyin Falola,Matthew M. Heaton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139472036
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and culture, combine their expertise to explain the context to Nigeria's recent troubles through an exploration of its pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence to statehood. By examining key themes such as colonialism, religion, slavery, nationalism and the economy, the authors show how Nigeria's history has been swayed by the vicissitudes of the world around it, and how Nigerians have adapted to meet these challenges. This book offers a unique portrayal of a resilient people living in a country with immense, but unrealized, potential.
Author : A. Carl LeVan,Patrick Ukata
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198804307
This volume is an authoritative and agenda-setting examination of Nigerian politics.
Author : Ucheoma Nwagbara
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793633767
In The Struggles of Post-Independence Nigeria, Ucheoma Nwagbara argues that despite Nigeria’s oil wealth and arable agricultural land, Nigerians are not any better today than they were before independence. Nwagbara examines Nigeria’s struggles with corruption, reckless government spending, poverty, inequality, crime, and violent insurgency to show how successive Nigerian leadership has failed to utilize the country’s enormous natural and human resources to improve citizens’ lives, eradicate poverty, and deliver broadly shared prosperity, especially to the middle class and the poor. Through his analysis, Nwagbara demonstrates that the nationalist ideals of dedicated and accountable leadership behind the struggle for independence in Nigeria have been betrayed as the emergent post-colonial leadership cared only for personal survival and gain. Despite these failures, Nwagbara reveals that Nigeria may still have a chance to improve and recover if Nigerians unite and demand real change through political and social activism.
Author : Samuel Okafor Idemili
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : WISC:89010972487
Author : John Campbell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538113769
Nigeria matters. It is Africa’s largest economy, and it is projected to become the third most populous country in the world by 2050, but its democratic aspirations are challenged by rising insecurity. John Campbell traces the fractured colonial history and contemporary ethnic conflicts and political corruption that define Nigeria today. It was not—and never had been—a nation-state like those of Europe. It is still not quite a nation because Nigerians are not yet united by language, religion, culture, or a common national story. It is not quite a state because the government is weak and getting weaker, beset by Islamist terrorism, insurrection, intercommunal violence, and a countrywide crime wave. This deeply knowledgeable book is an antidote to those who would make the mistakes of Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq—mistakes based on misunderstanding—in Nigeria. Up to now, such mistakes have largely been avoided, but Nigeria will soon—and Campbell argues already does—require much greater attention by the West.
Author : Obafemi Awolowo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : LCCN:47024937
Author : Lasse Heerten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107111806
A global history of 'Biafra', providing a new explanation for the ascendance of humanitarianism in a postcolonial world.
Author : Olayiwola Abegunrin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739193525
This book examines the role of the emerging African nations in the new international order of the twenty-first century. Since the end of the Cold War, little significance has been placed on the African continent in the security and political considerations of the Western world. However, post-9/11 international security has been redefined, and new challenges have been identified. Thus, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Africa is facing a variety of new security challenges. Africa has become an increasingly important battleground in the fight against terrorism. Since the beginning of 2011, the new revolutions, now known as the Arab Spring, that swept through North Africa have created new challenges for the African continent and are compounding the African peoples’ struggles for poverty alleviation, state stability, security, socio-political and socio-economic development, democracy, and good governance. In addition to these crises of civil war, ethnic conflict, state insecurity, and rampant corruption at all levels, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has ravaged the continent for the past four decades. The only major pan-African organization—the African Union—is unable to lead and defend the continent effectively. At this crucial period when the continent is confronted with these myriad of security challenges, it needs effective, strong leadership that possesses both human and natural resources to play a leadership role in Africa and lead the continent in the new global order of the twenty-first century. The contributors to this volume analyze many of these issues and place them in the wider context of global security.
Author : Chima J. Korieh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425803
A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.
Author : Carlyn Dawn Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : NWU:35556012149837
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101595985
From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.
Author : Rotimi Ajayi,Joseph Yinka Fashagba
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030505097
This volume engages in an in-depth discussion of Nigerian politics. Written by an expert group of Nigerian researchers, the chapters provide an overarching, Afrocentric view of politics in Nigeria, from pre-colonial history to the current federal system. The book begins with a series of historical chapters analyzing the development of Nigeria from its traditional political institutions through the First Republic. After establishing the necessary historical context, the next few chapters shift the focus to specific political institutions and phenomena, including the National Assembly, local government and governance, party politics, and federalism. The remaining chapters discuss issues that continue to affect Nigerian politics: the debt crisis, oil politics in the Niger Delta, military intervention and civil-military relations, as well as nationalism and inter-group relations. Providing an overview of Nigerian politics that encompasses history, economics, and public administration, this volume will be useful to students and researchers interested in African politics, African studies, democracy, development, history, and legislative studies.
Author : James S. Coleman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520308183
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1958.
Author : John Campbell,Matthew T. Page
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190658007
As the "Giant of Africa" Nigeria is home to about twenty percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa, serves as Africa's largest producer of oil and natural gas, comprises Africa's largest economy, and represents the cultural center of African literature, film, and music. Yet the country is plagued by problems that keep it from realizing its potential as a world power. Boko Haram, a radical Islamist insurrection centered in the northeast of the country, is an ongoing security challenge, as is the continuous unrest in the Niger Delta, the heartland of Nigeria's petroleum wealth. There is also persistent violence associated with land and water use, ethnicity, and religion. In Nigeria: What Everyone Needs to Know®, John Campbell and Matthew Page provide a rich contemporary overview of this crucial African country. Delving into Nigeria's recent history, politics, and culture, this volume tackles essential questions related to widening inequality, the historic 2015 presidential election, the persistent security threat of Boko Haram, rampant government corruption, human rights concerns, and the continual conflicts that arise in a country that is roughly half Christian and half Muslim. With its continent-wide influence in a host of areas, Nigeria's success as a democracy is in the fundamental interest of its African neighbors, the United States, and the international community. This book will provide interested readers with an accessible, one-of-a-kind overview of the country.