The Management of the National Question in Nigeria
Author: Eghosa E. Osaghae
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13:
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The National Question in Nigeria
Author: Abubakar Momoh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1351753290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2002: Addressing the burning questions confronting the Nigerian nation-state today, this book explores the diverse dimensions and voices apparent in the challenges surrounding the national question. Highlighting a range of under-researched and unexplored issues, it theoretically and empirically examines key aspects of the national question discourse and debate in Nigeria. The contributors bring wide and varied experiences to bear on the volume and employ both these experiences and the multidisciplinary approach to illuminate and enrich the issues under study. The National Question in Nigeria identifies challenges that must be addressed if the nation is to survive - and critical issues that have been left unresolved and now threaten the nation state. It is essential reading for social scientists, policy makers, politicians, NGO activists and all observers and students of Nigerian history and politics.
Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria
Author: Uyilawa Usuanlele
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-03-18
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 3319506307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria. Nigeria provides a framework for examining the central paradox in post-colonial nation building projects in Africa – the tension between majority rule and minority rights. The liberal democratic model on which most African states were founded at independence from colonial rule, and to which they continue to aspire, is founded on majority rule. It is also founded on the protection of the rights of minority groups to political participation, social inclusion and economic resources. Maintaining this tenuous balance between majority rule and minority rights has, in the decades since independence, become the key national question in many African countries, perhaps none more so than Nigeria. This volume explores these issues, focusing on four key themes as they relate to minority rights in Nigeria: ethnic and religious identities, nationalism and federalism, political crises and armed conflicts.
Nigerian Unity
Author: Gerald McLoughlin
Publisher: Army War College Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781584875772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNigeria¿s future as a unified state is in jeopardy. Those who make or execute U.S. policy will find it difficult to advance U.S. interests in Africa without an understanding of the pressures that tear and bind Nigeria. Despite this, the centrifugal forces that tear at the country and the centripetal forces that have kept it whole are not well understood and rarely examined. After establishing Nigeria¿s importance to the United State as a cohesive and functioning state, this monograph examines the historic, religious, cultural, political, physical, demographic, and economic factors that will determine Nigeria¿s fate. It identifies the specific fault lines along which Nigeria may divide. It concludes with practical policy recommendations for the United States to support Nigerians in their efforts to maintain a functioning and integrated state, and, by so doing, advance U.S. interests.
The National Question and Some Selected Topical Issues on Nigeria
Author: Hassan A. Saliu
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGovernance and Politics in Post-Military Nigeria
Author: S. Adejumobi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-12-20
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0230115454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection is the product of a National Research Working Group (NRWG) established by Said Adejumobi and supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA). It analyzes the progress made in Nigeria since the return to democratic rule in 1999 and the prospects of democratic consolidation in the country.
The Causes of Instability in Nigeria and Implications for the United States
Author: Clarence J. Bouchat
Publisher: Army War College Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe political economy problems of Nigeria, the root cause for ethnic, religious, political and economic strife, can be in part addressed indirectly through focused contributions by the U.S. military, especially if regionally aligned units are more thoroughly employed.
Federalism and Political Restructuring in Nigeria
Author: Kunle Amuwo
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwenty essays by four generations of Nigerian scholars are included in this volume, the first to examine the historical, political, economic and comparative dimensions of attempts by the military to restructure the Nigerian federation. Evidence is accumulated in support of the book's central thesis that autocratic rule is antipathetic to the sustenance of genuine federal practice, and that federal restructuring initiated under the tight control of repressive governments cannot but lead to a situation in which federalism is assaulted, if not dismantled. It is argued that, in such a context, the vending of a federal doctrine becomes more or less an exercise in the propagation of false consciousness in the service of power - portraying a picture of divided power to hide the reality of undivided power.
Political Reform Conference, Federalism and the National Question in Nigeria
Author: Nigerian Political Science Association. Conference
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 492
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFederalism in Africa: Framing the national question
Author: Aaron Tsado Gana
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780865439788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
