Nigerian Federalism in Crisis
Author: Ebere Onwudiwe
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 324
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Author: Ebere Onwudiwe
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 324
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Published: 1996
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoints out that most groups in Nigeria have called for a redesigning of the basis for national unity to permit greater autonomy to nationalities, as well as greater equality among them in national political, economic, and social affairs. Reviews the National Question, and states that, if unity is to be sustainable, it has to be based on consent, rooted in a legitimate state and government to which people can freely give their allegiance in return for basic socio-economic and political rights.
Author: Rotimi T. Suberu
Publisher: 成甲書房
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781929223282
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Author: G. Oka Orewa
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 160
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9789785596243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-01-27
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1666905844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Fragmented Identities of Nigeria: Sociopolitical and Economic Crises, edited by John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji and Rotimi Omosulu, readers are offered essays which explore the historiogenesis and ontological struggles of Nigeria as a geographical expression and a political experiment. The transdisciplinary contributions in this book analyze Nigeria as a microcosm of global African identity crises to address the deep-rooted conflicts within multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic, multi-religious, and multicultural societies. By studying Nigeria as a country manufactured for the interests of colonial forces and ingrained with feudal hegemonic agendas of global powers working against the emancipation of African people, Fragmented Identities of Nigeria examines the history, evolution, and consequences of Nigeria’s sociopolitical and economic crises. The contributors make suggestions for pulling Nigeria from the brink of an identity implosion which was generated by years of misgovernance by leaders without vision or understanding of what is at stake in global black history. Throughout, the collection argues that it is time for Nigeria to reassess, renegotiate, and reimagine Nigeria’s future, whether it be through finding an amicable way the different ethnicities can continue to co-exist as federating or confederating units, or to dissolve the country which was created for economic exploitation by the United Kingdom.
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.
Author: Peter Palmer Ekeh
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kunle Amuwo
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 388
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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.
Author: J. Isawa Elaigwu
Publisher: Adonis & Abbey Publishers
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 298
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1966, a soft-spoken 32-year old man emerged from relative obscurity and humble background to become Nigeria's Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. His name was Lt Col (later General)Yakubu Gowon. He emerged as the compromise candidate following the political crisis that engulfed the country after the July 1966 military coup that had led to the assassination of the country's first military Head of State, General Aguiyi Ironsi. At the end of the Civil War in 1970, General Gowon's doctrine of 'No Victor No Vanquished' greatly endeared him to many, and he was variously dubbed 'Abraham Lincoln of Nigeria', 'a soft spoken but dynamic leader' 'a real gentleman' and 'an almost faultless administrator'. However, after he was overthrown in a military coup in July 1975, long knives were drawn out for him, with the hitherto friendly press and public crying 'crucify him', and now variously vilifying him as 'weak' and of managing a purposeless administration that had led to the 'drifting' of the nation. In this book Professor J. Isawa Elaigwu attempts a scholarly political biography of someone he believes has rendered great ser-vices to the Nigerian nation despite his weaknesses as a leader. He rejects the notion that Gowon's nine years in office were 'nine years of failure' as the General's ardent critics posit, arguing that if it is possible to identify a number of thresholds in his administration, it is also possible to identify the approxi-mate point in time when the strains of his administration became visible to observers and the public in general. He poses and methodically seeks answers to a number of fundamental questions: Who was Yakubu Gowon? Why and how was the reservoir of goodwill and credibility which he had accumulated by the end of the Civil War expended? What image of Nigeria did he have when he came into power? And did he ever achieve his objectives? The book, first published in 1986, has been revised and expanded for this edition ____________________________________ Dr. J. Isawa Elaigwu is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria. He is currently the President of the Institute of Governance and Social Research (IGSR), Jos, Nigeria. A widely travelled academic, Professor Elaigwu's works have been widely published within and outside Nigeria. He has also served as a consultant to many national and international agencies.