The National Question and Some Selected Topical Issues on Nigeria
Author : Hassan A. Saliu
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Cultural pluralism
ISBN :
TOPICAL ISSUES IN NIGERIA'S POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
Author : J. ISAWA ELAIGWU
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1912234513
Book Description
Nigerians love to debate. Even under colonial rule, the authorities realised that Nigerians could not be repressed and that they always expressed their views on topical issues of development. The topical issues that have driven Nigeria's political economy include Constitution and Constitutionalism, Democracy, the National Question, Civil-Military Relations, Federalism, State and Nation-Building, Local Governance, Leadership, the Role of Traditional Rulers, the Economy and Religion.This volume is a selection of some of Professor Elaigwu's contributions to these debates. In it, Elaigwu, a leading Nigerian political scientist, argues that the challenges facing the country are not unsurmountable and that Nigerians must take the destiny of their country in their hands and look inwards to deal with the country's weaknesses while strengthening her capacity and resolve to become an industrialised and powerful country within a limited space of time.
Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria
Author : Uyilawa Usuanlele
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 2017-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 3319506307
Book Description
This 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 National Question in Nigeria
Author : Abubakar Momoh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351753290
Book Description
This title was first published in 2002: Addressing the burning questions confronting the Nigerian nation-state today, this book explores the diverse dimensions and voices apparent in the challenges surrounding the national question. Highlighting a range of under-researched and unexplored issues, it theoretically and empirically examines key aspects of the national question discourse and debate in Nigeria. The contributors bring wide and varied experiences to bear on the volume and employ both these experiences and the multidisciplinary approach to illuminate and enrich the issues under study. The National Question in Nigeria identifies challenges that must be addressed if the nation is to survive - and critical issues that have been left unresolved and now threaten the nation state. It is essential reading for social scientists, policy makers, politicians, NGO activists and all observers and students of Nigerian history and politics.
Merger Politics of Nigeria and Surge of Sectarian Violence
Author : James Ohwofasa Akpeninor
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 2013-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1467881724
Book Description
The book evaluates the unrelenting waves of ethno-religious and political conflicts with regards to the danger posed to the emerging democratic process in Nigeria by exploring the prevalence of ethno-religious conflicts in Nigeria as an upshot of predisposed confliction of colonialism, heightened by military authoritarianism and consolidated by the contradictions entrenched in the Nigerian federalism. It is against the ambience of extreme ethnic agitations and hostilities in the recent times, that the initiative of this book is predicated on spotlighting conflicts in Nigeria and Africa by extension whilst accentuating the escalation of violence amid implication for national security and the countrys corporate existence.
Healing Plants of Nigeria
Author : Anselm Adodo
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0429804474
Book Description
Healing Plants of Nigeria: Ethnomedicine and Therapeutic Applications offers comprehensive information on the use of herbal medicines in West Africa. Combining an evidence-based, ethnobotanical perspective with a pharmacological and pharmaceutical approach to phytomedicine, the book bridges the gap between the study of herbal plants’ pharmacological properties and active compounds for the development of clinical drugs and community-oriented approaches, emphasising local use. It demonstrates how the framework of African traditional medicine can be preserved in a contemporary clinical context. The book outlines the history and beliefs surrounding the traditional use of herbs by the local population alongside their application in contemporary phytotherapy in Nigeria and West Africa. It features a critical assessment of the scientific rationale behind the use of these plants in ethnomedicine and offers a composite catalogue of phytotherapeutic and wellness agents, detailing the safety profile, efficacy, and scientific integrity of plants used to treat diseases and optimise health. Features: An ethnobotanical survey containing over 200 full-colour photographs of Nigerian and West African plants. A unique combination of ethnobotany and pharmacognosy, bridging the divide between pharmaceutical and community-oriented approaches to herbal medicine research. Contextual discussion of the therapeutic potential of Nigerian herbal medicine. Offers a template which can be used to separate the superstitious aspects of ethnomedicine from culturally inherited deposits of knowledge. A handbook for herbal and natural medicine practitioners, the book is aimed at African thinkers, scientists, healthcare providers and students of pharmacology and ethnomedicine.
The Causes of Instability in Nigeria and Implications for the United States
Author : Clarence J. Bouchat
Publisher : Army War College Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Book Description
The political economy problems of Nigeria, the root cause for ethnic, religious, political and economic strife, can be in part addressed indirectly through focused contributions by the U.S. military, especially if regionally aligned units are more thoroughly employed.
Reforms and Nigerian Labour and Employment Relations
Author : Dafe Otobo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9875477532
Book Description
This collections of papers, from twenty-seven chapters is on aspects of reforms and labour and employment relations in Nigeria over the past three decades.
The Challenge of African Potentials
Author : Yaw Ofosu-Kusi
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 13,3 MB
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9956551759
Book Description
This collection of articles is based on presentations and discussions at the 2018 African Potentials Forum, held in Accra, Ghana. This forum was a part of the African Potentials Project, which aims to clarify the latent problem-solving abilities, ways of thinking, and institutions that have been created, accumulated, unified, and deployed in the everyday experiences of Africans. The notion of Africas latent power/potential is not related to romanticisation of the traditional knowledge of African society and its institutions as fixed, essentialised magic wands. This notion also raises objections against political dogmas that seek to smoke out and eliminate thought and values originating in Western modernity. The keyword of the Accra Forum was futurity. Africas future is laden with possibilities, latent power, and potential. It is bright and hopeful but, simultaneously, bleak and thought-provoking. For nascent democracies and economically challenged communities, the value of this potential lies not in its static qualities but in how these qualities can be harnessed and translated into beneficial practical outcomes. As a concept, potential connotes a time to come; a futurity that is full of known and unknown possibilities, challenges, and opportunities.
Economic Policy Options for a Prosperous Nigeria
Author : P. Collier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230583199
Book Description
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.
