Contemporary Issues in Nigerian Affairs
Author | : A. E. Davies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : A. E. Davies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Campbell |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2013-06-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1442221585 |
Nigeria, the United States’ most important strategic partner in West Africa, is in grave trouble. While Nigerians often claim they are masters of dancing on the brink without falling off, the disastrous administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, the radical Islamic insurrection Boko Haram, and escalating violence in the delta and the north may finally provide the impetus that pushes it into the abyss of state failure. In this thoroughly updated edition, John Campbellexplores Nigeria’s post-colonial history and presents a nuanced explanation of the events and conditions that have carried this complex, dynamic, and very troubled giant to the edge. Central to his analysis are the oil wealth, endemic corruption, and elite competition that have undermined Nigeria’s nascent democratic institutions and alienated an increasingly impoverished population. However, state failure is not inevitable, nor is it in the interest of the United States. Campbell provides concrete new policy options that would not only allow the United States to help Nigeria avoid state failure but also to play a positive role in Nigeria’s political, social, and economic development.
Author | : U. A. Igun |
Publisher | : Shebiotimo Publications |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1998* |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : A. Carl LeVan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2019-01-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108569218 |
In 2015, Nigeria's voters cast out the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Here, A. Carl LeVan traces the political vulnerability of Africa's largest party in the face of elite bargains that facilitated a democratic transition in 1999. These 'pacts' enabled electoral competition but ultimately undermined the party's coherence. LeVan also crucially examines the four critical barriers to Nigeria's democratic consolidation: the terrorism of Boko Haram in the northeast, threats of Igbo secession in the southeast, lingering ethnic resentments and rebellions in the Niger Delta, and farmer-pastoralist conflicts. While the PDP unsuccessfully stoked fears about the opposition's ability to stop Boko Haram's terrorism, the opposition built a winning electoral coalition on economic growth, anti-corruption, and electoral integrity. Drawing on extensive interviews with a number of politicians and generals and civilians and voters, he argues that electoral accountability is essential but insufficient for resolving the representational, distributional, and cultural components of these challenges.
Author | : John Campbell |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2024-08-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1538197812 |
Nigeria, despite being the African country of greatest strategic importance to the U.S., remains poorly understood. John Campbell explains why Nigeria is so important to understand in a world of jihadi extremism, corruption, oil conflict, and communal violence. The revised edition provides updates through the recent presidential election.
Author | : Oladipo O. Okege |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Aloysius Michaels Okolie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nigerian Institute of International Affairs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Globalization |
ISBN | : 9789780021221 |
Author | : Jagun Ph D Adedokun Jagun Ph D |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781425723798 |
This book is a collection of my articles written as freelance columnist and published in Nigeria's national newspapers between 1985 and 1995. My article , "The proper meaning of underdevelopment," attracted several published comments from readers. This type of public reaction, a reaction that continued even with regard to subsequent newspaper articles, gave me unqualified fulfillment. I suddenly found a niche, a forum where I could take on policies and actions of government in the full glare of the public, without being branded a rabble rouser by the authorities. At least this was my reasoning until 1995. After the June 12, 1994 Presidential elections, annulled by General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, my freelance newspaper contributions assumed a different tone. Between 1994 and 1995, my freelance newspaper articles were becoming a source of worry for my family. Late General Sanni Abacha had embarked on total annihilation of the opposition. My immediate and extended families were not so sure whether or not it was safe to continue writing in the vein that I was. Their concern was probably not misplaced since I had called for, in one of my articles, for the political break-up of Nigeria. I thus became one of the earliest writers to publicly called for the political redefinition of Nigeria as a political entity. Virtually all the articles contained in this collection were the result of government action or inaction. Topics ranged from poverty to the arbitrary creation of local government units to the futility of military incursion into politics. This book captures a very important portion of Nigeria's political and social history. As a book of articles and therefore socio-political commentaries, it is useful. Issues discussed in these articles are still as relevant today as they were when they were first published. The issue of the political future of Nigeria as a nation, the relationship between the center and the constituent parts, the problem of poverty and many more continue to dominate national political discourse even today. This book therefore cuts into contemporary Nigeria political issues albeit form the narrative of yesteryears. The fact that those issues on the front burner in the eighties and nineties still do even today, is a testimony to the unyielding nature of the country's political climate. Those significant and nutty sociopolitical issues raised by these articles are yet to be addressed and resolved.
Author | : Adeolu Durotoye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2016-12-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783330012561 |