Challenges to the Nation-state in Africa
Challenges to the Nation-state in Africa

Author: Adebayo O. Olukoshi

Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 222

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The challenges facing the nation-state in contemporary Africa are increasingly attracting the attention of scholars interested to understand how the decomposition and recomposition of popular political identities on the continent are affecting the post-colonial unitary project. The studies presented in this volume show that the challenges to the post-colonial nation-state project in Africa have mainly taken ethno-regionalist, religious and separatist forms. These challenges have been shaped by the long drawn-out economic crisis, zero-sum, market-led structural adjustment, and the legacy of decades of political authoritarianism and exclusion that dates from the colonial period. The contributors to this book present different suggestions to promote national unity and a supporting civic identity in Africa.

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Publisher: Kotobarabia.com

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Total Pages: 201

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Federalism in Africa
Federalism in Africa

Author: Aaron Tsado Gana

Publisher: Africa World Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9781592210800

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Looking at the experiences of other federal societies across the globe this volume interrogates the problem of national integration within the context of ethno-religious and cultural pluralism, and presents exciting prospects for the resolution of the National Question. Compelling and indispensable, this work is the most comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the subject in recent years.

Federalism in Africa: Framing the national question
Federalism in Africa: Framing the national question

Author: Aaron Tsado Gana

Publisher: Africa World Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780865439788

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The world's first attempt at a scholarly historicisation of the African crisis of development, this book interrogates the problem of national integration within the context of ethno-religious and cultural pluralism. Here, top scholars offer refreshing insight into the prospects for transforming Africa into a super-power of the third millennium. The breadth and depth of coverage and analytical rigour unites the essays, providing one of the most comprehensive and authoritative treatments of the subject in recent years.

The Changing Forms of Identity Politics in Nigeria Under Economic Adjustment
The Changing Forms of Identity Politics in Nigeria Under Economic Adjustment

Author: Cyril I. Obi

Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9789171064714

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"The Niger delta region of Nigeria which is at the heart of the country's oil industry, has a long history of struggles for self-determination dating back to the early years of the 20[superscript th] century. In the 1980s and 1990s, these struggles, unfolding as they did within the context of military authoritarianism and structural adjustment, took the form of widespread agitation for greater control by local communities of the revenues accruing to the Nigerian state from exploration and extraction of oil." "This study attempts to capture the transformations in ethnic minority identity politics in the oil-producing areas of the Niger delta. In doing this, attention is simultaneously drawn to the factors informing the shift from peaceful agitation to violent protest as well as the dynamic of decay and renewal in the various ethnic minority movements that are active in the delta. It is suggested that part of the solution to the crisis in the delta will involve not only a thorough-going restructuring of the Nigerian state but also the re-orientation of the mode of operation of the giant oil multinationals in order to make them both more sensitive and accountable to the local communities."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Illusions of Power
Illusions of Power

Author: Julius Omozuanvbo Ihonvbere

Publisher: Africa World Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780865436428

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A contemporary account of the traumas, dialects and dynamics of Nigeria's distinctive political economy. With an analysis located in Nigeria's pre-colonial, colonial and neo-colonial history, the authors examine the dynamics of the various pre-capitalistic communities of modern day Nigeria emphasising the autonomy, creativity, and alignments of social and political forces in the processes of market consolidation, state and class formation.

The Challenges of Democratic Governance in Nigeria's Fourth Republic
The Challenges of Democratic Governance in Nigeria's Fourth Republic

Author: Stanley Naribo Ngoa

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2024-10-14

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1036408957

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This book is a collection of scholarly essays from some of Nigeria’s most notable social science scholars on the character, contours, and peculiarities of democratic practices in Nigeria’s fourth attempt at constitutional rule after years of brutally absolutist military regimes. The Fourth Republic began in 1999 and continues to this day. It is coterminous with the restoration of constitutional rule after 16 years of sustained military rule, which represents the longest stretch of democratic self-rule since Nigeria won independence from British colonialism in 1960. The chapters in this book contain scholarly insights into the pitfalls of governance, institutional dysfunctions and foundational woes that continue to threaten the vitality of the Fourth Republic. Contributors to the book offer critical theoretical lenses to gaze at the decline in democratic citizenship, weakening of faith in the promises of democracy, loss of critical media engagement with the state, and deterioration of the socio-political fortunes of the state in Nigeria.

Confronting the Challenges and Prospects in the Creation of a Union of African States in the 21st Century
Confronting the Challenges and Prospects in the Creation of a Union of African States in the 21st Century

Author: E. Ike Udogu

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2010-02-19

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1443820504

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Confronting the Challenges and Prospects in the Creation of a Union of African States in the 21st Century frames the discourse around the important issue of African unification, against the backdrop of the region’s political and economic marginalization. Arguably the richest continent in the world, in terms of its abundant untapped natural resources and human capital, it still lags behind the other regions of the world developmentally. Undeniably, Africa is at the crossroads in this millennium, within the context of the powerful events and effects of the “New Globalization.” One of the central issues that academics and political actors, interested in African development, must tackle immediately is how to make the region politically and economically relevant in global affairs. These objectives could be attained through continental amalgamation. Accordingly, this book debates and suggests, inter alia, strategies that might advance Africa’s unification effort in order to provide the politico-economic clout needed to spur continental development. Further, it argues that such a Union of African States is critical for promoting the “good political life” for all Africans.