Ethnicity and National Integration in Nigeria
Author: Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
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Understanding Modern Nigeria
Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-24
Total Pages: 691
ISBN-13: 1108837972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the politics and society of post-colonial Nigeria, highlighting the key themes of ethnicity, democracy, and development.
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.
The Sociolinguistics of Development in Africa
Author: Paulin G. Djité
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1847690459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an analysis of modernisation informed by the place of language in education, health, the economy and governance in the African context. It paints a wide canvas of Africa in its different facets, and shows how language is used as an instrument to deny access to socioeconomic and political emancipation.
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.
Ethnic Politics in Nigeria
Author: Okwudiba Nnoli
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 312
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Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780865439986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfessor Toyin Falola, a distinguished Africanist and a leading historian of Nigeria, has established an enduring academic legacy.
The Pragmatics of Translation
Author: Leo Hickey
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781853594045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPragmatics, often defined as the study of language use and language users, sets out to explain what people wish to achieve and how they go about achieving it in using language. Such a study is clearly of direct relevance to an understanding of translation and translators. The thirteen chapters in this volume show how translation - skill, art, process and product - is affected by pragmatic factors such as the acts performed by people when they use language, how writers try to be polite, relevant and cooperative, the distinctions they make between what their readers may already know and what is likely to be new to them, what is presupposed and what is openly affirmed, time and space, how they refer to things and make their discourse coherent, how issues may be hedged or attempts made to produce in readers of the translation effects equivalent to those stimulated in readers of the original. Particular attention is paid to legal, political, humorous, poetic and other literary texts.
Ethnicity and Integration
Author: John Stillwell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2010-07-20
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9048191033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe theme of this volume is ethnicity and the implications for integration of our increasingly ethnically diversified population. New research findings from a range of census, survey and administrative data sources are presented, and case studies are included.
Religion in Politics
Author: Julius Adekunle
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13:
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