Nigeria in the Transition Years, 1993-1999
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Nigeria
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Nigeria
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Author : A. Carl LeVan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : 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 : Max Siollun
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1787382028
In the cataclysmic decade that is the focus of this book, Nigeria was subject to several near-death experiences. These began when the country nearly tore itself apart after the northern-led military government annulled the results of a 1993 presidential election won by the southerner Moshood Abiola, and ended with former military ruler General Olusegun Obasanjo being the unlikely conduit of democracy. This mini-history of a nation's life also reflects on three mesmerizing protagonists who personified that era. First up is Abiola: the multi-billionaire businessman who had his election victory voided by the generals who made him rich, and who was later assassinated. General Sani Abacha was the mysterious, reclusive ruler under whose watch Abiola was arrested and pro-democracy activists (including Abiola's wife) were murdered. He also oversaw a terrifying Orwellian state security operation. Although Abacha is today reviled as a tyrant, the author eschews selective amnesia, reminding Nigerians that they goaded him into seizing power. The third protagonist is Obasanjo, who emerged from prison to return to power as an elected civilian leader. The penumbra of military rule still looms over Nigeria nearly twenty years after the soldiers departed, and key personalities featured in this book remain in government, including the current president.
Author : 'Kunle Amuwo
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
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The autocratic regime of Sani Abacha (1993-1998) stands out as a watershed in the history of independent Nigeria. Nigeria's darkest years since the civil war resulted from his unrestrained personal rule; very close to the features associated with warlordism. Nepotism, corruption, violation of human rights, procrastination over the implementation of a democratic transition, and the exploitation of ethnic, cultural or religious identities, also resulted in the accumulation of harshly repressed frustrations. In this book, some distinguished scholars, journalists and civil society activists examine this process of democratic recession, and its institutional, sociological, federal and international ramifications. Most of the contributions were originally presented at a seminar organized by the Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire (CEAN) in Bordeaux.
Author : Kayode Samuel
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Economic and social development
ISBN : 9789780232146
This is a collection of essays on a remarkable and turbulent period in the political history of Nigeria. Although written between 1999 and 2003, the focus of these essays reached far behind that period to the crises of the annulment of the June 12 1993 Presidential elections and its aftermath. The annulment marked a defining moment whose impact still haunts Nigeria's democratic experiment to date. The essays seek to offer both the general reader and professional an insight onto the issues, currents and trends that defined this watershed decade and its sequel, of which the current political dispensation is a part.
Author : Tunji Olagunju
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9780946480944
Author : Isaac Sagay
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Ambassadors
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Author : Daniel C. Bach
Publisher : Institut français de recherche en Afrique
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788025005
The autocratic regime of Sani Abacha (1993-1998) stands out as a watershed in the history of independent Nigeria. Nigeria’s darkest years since the civil war resulted from his unrestrained personal rule; very close to the features associated with warlordism. Nepotism, corruption, violation of human rights, procrastination over the implementation of a democratic transition, and the exploitation of ethnic, cultural or religious identities, also resulted in the accumulation of harshly repressed frustrations. In this book, some distinguished scholars, journalists and civil society activists examine this process of democratic recession, and its institutional, sociological, federal and international ramifications. Most of the contributions were originally presented at a seminar organized by the Centre d’Etude d’Afrique Noire (CEAN) in Bordeaux.
Author : Bronwen Manby
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781564322258
Attempts to Import Weapons
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Page : pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Nigeria
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