Nigeria
Author | : Library of Congress. Federal Research Division |
Publisher | : Headquarters Department of Army |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Federal Research Division |
Publisher | : Headquarters Department of Army |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harold D. Nelson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Department of the Army |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2013-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781491015070 |
This volume is one in a continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies- Area Handbook program sponsored by the department of the Army.
Author | : Carlyn Dawn Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1979 |
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 | : Library Of Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2017-05-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781521343791 |
Comprehensive and unique information with professional analysis of Nigeria politics and history, economic, social, military, and national security systems and institutions, written by the experts at the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. This Country Study and Country Profile is an exceptional review of Nigeria and its history. Books in the Country Studies series describe and analyze "political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examin[e] the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. The authors seek to provide a basic understanding of the observed society, striving for a dynamic rather than a static portrayal. Particular attention is devoted to the people who make up the society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, their common interests and the issues on which they are divided, the nature and extent of their involvement with national institutions, and their attitudes toward each other and toward their social system and political order."
Author | : Toyin Falola |
Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1580463584 |
The book traces the history of writing about Nigeria since the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the rise of nationalist historiography and the leading themes. The second half of the twentieth century saw the publication of massive amounts of literature on Nigeria by Nigerian and non-Nigerian historians. This volume reflects on that literature, focusing on those works by Nigerians in thecontext of the rise and decline of African nationalist historiography. Given the diminishing share in the global output of literature on Africa by African historians, it has become crucial to reintroduce Africans into historicalwriting about Africa. As the authors attempt here to rescue older voices, they also rehabilitate a stale historiography by revisiting the issues, ideas, and moments that produced it. This revivalism also challenges Nigerian historians of the twenty-first century to study the nation in new ways, to comprehend its modernity, and to frame a new set of questions on Nigeria's future and globalization. In spite of current problems in Nigeria and its universities, that historical scholarship on Nigeria (and by extension, Africa) has come of age is indisputable. From a country that struggled for Western academic recognition in the 1950s to one that by the 1980s had emerged as one of the most studied countries in Africa, Nigeria is not only one of the early birthplaces of modern African history, but has also produced members of the first generation of African historians whose contributions to the development and expansion of modern African history is undeniable. Like their counterparts working on other parts of the world, these scholars have been sensitive to the need to explore virtually all aspects of Nigerian history. The book highlights the careers of some of Nigeria's notable historians of the first and second generation. Toyin Falola is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Saheed Aderinto is Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina University.
Author | : Peter Cunliffe-Jones |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2010-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230112609 |
His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later, his grandfather helped craft Nigeria's constitution and negotiate its independence, the first of its kind in Africa. Four decades later, Peter Cunliffe-Jones arrived as a journalist in the capital, Lagos, just as military rule ended, to face the country his family had a hand in shaping.Part family memoir, part history, My Nigeria is a piercing look at the colonial legacy of an emerging power in Africa. Marshalling his deep knowledge of the nation's economic, political, and historic forces, Cunliffe-Jones surveys its colonial past and explains why British rule led to collapse at independence. He also takes an unflinching look at the complicated country today, from email hoaxes and political corruption to the vast natural resources that make it one of the most powerful African nations; from life in Lagos's virtually unknown and exclusive neighborhoods to the violent conflicts between the numerous tribes that make up this populous African nation. As Nigeria celebrates five decades of independence, this is a timely and personal look at a captivating country that has yet to achieve its great potential.
Author | : USA International Business Publications |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2001-05-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780739779422 |
Author | : John Iliffe |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 184701027X |
Olusegun Obasanjo has been the most important and controversial figure in Nigeria's first 50 years of independence and the most powerful African of his time. John Iliffe examines Olusegun Obasanjo's complex personality and the extreme controversy he arouses among Nigerians, and illustrates the immense demands made on a leader of a state like Nigeria.