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Author : Yusufu Bala Usman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : 9781294744
Author : Eghosa E. Osaghae
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253211972
"Crippled Giant is an excellent summary of Nigerian political history. . . . The work is notable for even-handed analysis of both history and theory. The result is an introduction of the highest quality to the study of Nigerian politics." —African Studies Review "Osaghae, an academic with a refreshingly neutral and understated approach to the maddening follies of his government, has produced a highly readable overview of Nigeria's politics, economy, and foreign relations. Rich in detail, his account is also a useful tour of earlier thematic treatments of the subject." —Foreign Affairs " . . . well-written, coherent narrative and thoughtful, balanced analysis of Nigeria's political history from 1960 to 1996." —A. H. M. Kirk-Greene, St. Antony's College, Oxford Eghosa Osaghae's study leads him to the conclusion that Nigeria's problems are not of recent making but can be traced to structural impediments from colonial times.
Author : M. O. Kayode
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781299592
Author : Toyin Falola,Matthew M. Heaton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : J. Hill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137292049
This book analyses the political and ethnical tensions that characterize Nigeria, which derive both from colonial and contemporary conflicts. It points out three major factors why Nigeria has not yet collapsed like many other African states: ethnic power sharing amongst the political elite, the military with its national outlook, and oil wealth.
Author : Levi Akalazu Nwachuku,G. N. Uzoigwe
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0761827129
Troubled Journey: Nigeria Since the Civil War is the latest of a number of case-study probes into Nigeria's unique experience as a modern African state. It pulls together a talented group of Nigerian historians who have been close students of Nigeria's "troubled journey" since Independence Day on October 1, 1960, and more precisely since the conclusion of its devastating Civil War from 1967 to 1970. This book is a major contribution to the on-going debate about how the country can best be politically restructured and socio-economically reformed.
Author : Olutayo C. Adesina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : 9789551908
Author : Darren Kew
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815653677
African nations have watched the recent civic dramas of the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street asking if they too will see similar civil society actions in their own countries. Nigeria—Africa’s most populous nation—has long enjoyed one of the continent’s most vibrant civil society spheres, which has been instrumental in political change. Initially viewed as contributing to democracy’s development, however, civil society groups have come under increased scrutiny by scholars and policymakers. Do some civil society groups promote democracy more effectively than others? And if so, which ones, and why? By examining the structure, organizational cultures, and methods of more than one hundred Nigerian civil society groups, Kew finds that the groups that best promote democratic development externally are themselves internally democratic. Specifically, the internally democratic civil society groups build more sustainable coalitions to resist authoritarian rule; support and influence political parties more effectively; articulate and promote public interests in a more negotiable fashion; and, most importantly, inculcate democratic norms in their members, which in turn has important democratizing impacts on national political cultures and institutions. Further, internally democratic groups are better able to resolve ethnic differences and ethnic-based tensions than their undemocratically structured peers. This book is a deeply comprehensive account of Nigerian civil society groups in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Kew blends democratic theory with conflict resolution methodologies to argue that the manner in which groups—and states—manage internal conflicts provides an important gauge as to how democratic their political cultures are. The conclusions will allow donors and policymakers to make strategic decisions in their efforts to build a democratic society in Nigeria and other regions.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : UVA:X002001266
Author : Ebenezer Obadare
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580465519
This work is an important contribution to the civil society debate in Africa and to the global literature on dissent.
Author : Ucheoma Nwagbara
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Sakah Saidu Mahmud
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349139415
This book compares the social processes that explain Japanese development, beginning with the Meiji Restoration in 1868, with similar processes in post-independent Nigeria in its effort to achieve capitalist development. Before the Restoration and independence, both Japan and Nigeria lacked any prospects for further development. Japan, however, pursued fundamental social transformations of society leading to capitalist development, whereas Nigeria, following independence, has lacked any transforming ideals resulting in underdevelopment and social stagnation.
Author : Matthew Todd Bradley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114363950
The study traverses theoretical and conceptual frameworks both within and beyond the political science discipline--with reference to the role of non-governmental organizations in nurturing and sustaining democracy in Nigeria. Explores the arrays of NGOs in Nigeria ranging from ethnic and religious spheres that helped transform the political sitting to support democratic transition.
Author : A. I. Pogoson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : UCAL:B3881112
Author : Bernard Nwosu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000401998
This book examines the complex relationship between the state and civil society and the impact that this has had on democratization processes in Nigeria from colonial times to the present. Expanding notions of democracy, the author builds a theoretical understanding of civil society to show how it can be both antithetical to and an ally of the state in the struggle for democratization. Combining the neo-Gramscian framework with discursive perspectives from Habermas and Foucault, the book takes a dialectical approach that traces the incarnations of the state and civil society and relates the mutual connections of the two spaces. This book will be of interest to scholars of African politics, democratization and civil society.