Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria

Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria
Author: Larry Diamond
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1988-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780815624226

The overthrow in January 1966 of Nigeria’s First Republic erased what had been regarded as perhaps the most promising prospect for liberal democracy in post-colonial Africa. Marking the sweeping failure of parliamentary institutions across a continent of new nations, it accelerated the slide into a ghastly civil war. Class, Ethnicity and Democracy is the first scholarly study to analyze the evolution, decay, and failure of Nigeria’s First Republic and to weigh this crucial experience against theories of the conditions for stable democratic government. Rejecting explanations that focus on political culture, political institutions, or ethnic competition and conflict, Larry Diamond identifies the root of Nigeria’s democratic failure in the interrelationship between class, ethnic and state structures. This led the emergent dominant class in each region to mobilize and exploit ethnicity and to trample the democratic process in furious competition for state control, since that control was the primary means for accumulating wealth and consolidating class dominance. Tracing the polarization of conflict and the erosion of legitimacy through five major crises, Diamond presents a new methodology for analyzing the persistence and failure of democracies and points to the relationship between state and society as a crucial determinant of the possibility for liberal democracy.

The 1963 Nigerian Census

The 1963 Nigerian Census
Author: I. I. Ekanem
Publisher:
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1972
Genre: Nigeria
ISBN:

Monograph comprising an evaluation of the nature and extent of distortion in the statistical data resulting from the 1963 population census of Nigeria - discusses nigeria's demographic problems, appraises the reported data of the 1963 census (incl. In respect of age group, sex, ethnic factors, occupation, etc.), and includes information on the reported age structure of the population as opposed to projections made in the 1953 census. Bibliography pp. 205 to 207, graphs, map, references and statistical tables.

Nigerian Politics

Nigerian Politics
Author: Rotimi Ajayi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2020-12-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 303050509X

This volume engages in an in-depth discussion of Nigerian politics. Written by an expert group of Nigerian researchers, the chapters provide an overarching, Afrocentric view of politics in Nigeria, from pre-colonial history to the current federal system. The book begins with a series of historical chapters analyzing the development of Nigeria from its traditional political institutions through the First Republic. After establishing the necessary historical context, the next few chapters shift the focus to specific political institutions and phenomena, including the National Assembly, local government and governance, party politics, and federalism. The remaining chapters discuss issues that continue to affect Nigerian politics: the debt crisis, oil politics in the Niger Delta, military intervention and civil-military relations, as well as nationalism and inter-group relations. Providing an overview of Nigerian politics that encompasses history, economics, and public administration, this volume will be useful to students and researchers interested in African politics, African studies, democracy, development, history, and legislative studies.

Nigeria, Echoes of a Century: 1914-1999

Nigeria, Echoes of a Century: 1914-1999
Author: Ifeoha Azikiwe
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1481729268

Echoes of a Century discusses fundamental issues in Nigeria's loose federation as well as unresolved national challenges in the past 100 years. It also examines the issue of leadership and its ceaseless manipulation through zoning, federal character, demography, ethnicity and religion that revolve around individuals against national interest; the politics and illusion of oil wealth that has become the nation's albatross; endemic corruption and societal decadence that negate her growth and development, and the clamour for a national conference to renegotiate the country's future.

World in Figures

World in Figures
Author: The Economist
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2016-05-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1349164372

Women and Work in Northern Nigeria

Women and Work in Northern Nigeria
Author: R. Pittin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2002-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1403914214

Women and Work in Northern Nigeria is a study of the social and economic opportunities open to and seized upon by Muslim Hausa women, primarily in the city of Katsina, Nigeria, over the course of the past three decades. In the context of multiple political regimes, the turmoil of the Nigerian economy, and major ideological shifts, women have sought to optimize their resources and situations. Women and Work in Northern Nigeria take as a primary theme, women's ability to recognize and to cross the physical, spatial and discursive boundaries which ostensibly service to define and confine them

Nigerian Federal Finance

Nigerian Federal Finance
Author: Adebayo Adedeji
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2023-12-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000969940

Originally published in 1969, this was the first standard work on Nigerian federal finance ever published. It traces the evolution of federal finance in Nigeria during a 20-year period from 1946 and analyses the economic, socio-political and fiscal problems encountered by the governments of the Federation in the course of this development. It also examines the main features of the fiscal system which emerged and discusses the way in which the general principles of federal finance have had to be tailored to the particular needs and interests of the different regions in Nigeria.