The Route To Power In Nigeria
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Author | : M. Balogun |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2009-09-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0230100848 |
Proceeding from a longitudinal analysis of Nigeria s governorship history, The Route to Power in Nigeria shows how personalities have for the most part overwhelmed institutions, to the detriment of the country s democratic consolidation. While it is customary to hold leaders solely responsible for the predicament of Nigeria s governorship, M.J. Balogun argues they could not have accomplished the task entirely by themselves. Here we see how the "silent majority", individuals who exploit weaknesses in the system, and those who have lost hope of casting votes in free elections play important roles in subverting the democratic system in Nigeria.
Author | : Peter Cunliffe-Jones |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2010-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230112609 |
His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later, his grandfather helped craft Nigeria's constitution and negotiate its independence, the first of its kind in Africa. Four decades later, Peter Cunliffe-Jones arrived as a journalist in the capital, Lagos, just as military rule ended, to face the country his family had a hand in shaping.Part family memoir, part history, My Nigeria is a piercing look at the colonial legacy of an emerging power in Africa. Marshalling his deep knowledge of the nation's economic, political, and historic forces, Cunliffe-Jones surveys its colonial past and explains why British rule led to collapse at independence. He also takes an unflinching look at the complicated country today, from email hoaxes and political corruption to the vast natural resources that make it one of the most powerful African nations; from life in Lagos's virtually unknown and exclusive neighborhoods to the violent conflicts between the numerous tribes that make up this populous African nation. As Nigeria celebrates five decades of independence, this is a timely and personal look at a captivating country that has yet to achieve its great potential.
Author | : Olusola Ogunnubi |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2020-11-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1527561941 |
This collection of essays examines the subject of power politics in Africa, paying special attention to the interests of African regional powers, as well as their capabilities and strategies in the international arena. It provides a theoretical bridge between concerns for militarised national interest, perpetual distrust and insecurity, struggles for power and hegemony in power politics, and the spirit of pan-African solidarity, brotherhood, consensus, cooperation and integration. It is on these bases that this volume offers rich empirical insight into leading regional powers in Africa with special attention given to Nigeria and South Africa. It serves to contribute African perspectives to the field of International Relations, particularly regarding power politics, which is important in terms of Africanising the narratives of a subject matter that is largely considered as Eurocentric in African and other non-Western societies.
Author | : Gerald McLoughlin |
Publisher | : Army War College Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Ethnic conflict |
ISBN | : 9781584875772 |
Nigeria¿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.
Author | : A. Carl LeVan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2019-01-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108569218 |
In 2015, Nigeria's voters cast out the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Here, A. Carl LeVan traces the political vulnerability of Africa's largest party in the face of elite bargains that facilitated a democratic transition in 1999. These 'pacts' enabled electoral competition but ultimately undermined the party's coherence. LeVan also crucially examines the four critical barriers to Nigeria's democratic consolidation: the terrorism of Boko Haram in the northeast, threats of Igbo secession in the southeast, lingering ethnic resentments and rebellions in the Niger Delta, and farmer-pastoralist conflicts. While the PDP unsuccessfully stoked fears about the opposition's ability to stop Boko Haram's terrorism, the opposition built a winning electoral coalition on economic growth, anti-corruption, and electoral integrity. Drawing on extensive interviews with a number of politicians and generals and civilians and voters, he argues that electoral accountability is essential but insufficient for resolving the representational, distributional, and cultural components of these challenges.
Author | : P. Collier |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2008-04-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0230583199 |
This book demonstrates that there is sufficient evidence on the Nigerian economy and society to inform many policy issues, and reveals the current problems and policy options that a democratic Nigeria will need to debate and resolve. It presents an agenda of reform as unfinished business.
Author | : Carlyn Dawn Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Max Siollun |
Publisher | : Hurst & Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-04-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781911723264 |
A revelatory account of British imperialism's shameful impact on Africa's most populous state.
Author | : Chinua Achebe |
Publisher | : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780435906986 |
This novel about Nigeria prophesied the 1983 coup.
Author | : Toyin Falola |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 691 |
Release | : 2021-06-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108837972 |
An introduction to the politics and society of post-colonial Nigeria, highlighting the key themes of ethnicity, democracy, and development.