The Rise & Fall of Nigeria's Second Republic, 1979-84
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : K. Hope
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 1999-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0333982444
Bringing together a distinguished cast of contributors, the book provides an authoritative and definitive analysis of the theory, practice and development impact of corruption in Africa. Combating corruption is demonstrated to require greater priority in the quest for African development.
Author : Julius Ihonvbere
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 2024-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1040278868
Nigeria is in a long-standing crisis. Military rule has suffocated civil society and has entrenched a culture of repression, corruption, and official irresponsibility. The reign of Ibrahim Babangida has resulted in near total economic disaster for the country. The situation is so bad, as Julius Ihonvbere shows, that Nigerians are now saying that the days of colonialism were better. In this major new study, Ihonvbere searches out the sources of Nigeria's predicament. He finds them in the country's historical experience, and the consequences of that experience since gaining political independence.Nigeria has become a society in which its citizens live in fear and its youth emigrate to other countries. It is now impossible to survive in the country without belonging to a certain religion, living in a particular region, having connections with top military officers, and being involved with some form of corruption. Even involvement in drug pushing or extrajudicial murder is no longer considered a crime, but a circumstance of life. Such conditions have encouraged the emergence of several popular organizations. New alliances of students, workers, women, youths, intellectuals, professionals, and the unemployed transcend ethnic, regional, and religious differences. For the author, it is at this emerging level of struggle and interaction that the future of Nigeria lies.This work examines several critical, but often overlooked or underresearched aspects of Nigeria's political economy. Ihonvbere analyzes in detail Nigeria's foreign policy, its economic crisis, the military, the decay of its educational system, and democratization. He pays particular attention to the paradoxical connection between IMF/World Bank-supervised structural adjustment and the struggle for democracy. His book will be of interest to experts hi socioeconomic development, foreign policy analysts, students of military science, and scholars of African politics and history.
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1139472038
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and culture, combine their expertise to explain the context to Nigeria's recent troubles through an exploration of its pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence to statehood. By examining key themes such as colonialism, religion, slavery, nationalism and the economy, the authors show how Nigeria's history has been swayed by the vicissitudes of the world around it, and how Nigerians have adapted to meet these challenges. This book offers a unique portrayal of a resilient people living in a country with immense, but unrealized, potential.
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : 9780865439986
Professor Toyin Falola, a distinguished Africanist and a leading historian of Nigeria, has established an enduring academic legacy.
Author : KEVIN SHILLINGTON.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1908 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN : 1135456704
Author : Bamidele A. Ojo
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781560725800
This is a timely book on political transition to civil rule in Nigeria. The socio-political and economic ramifications of the transfer of power to an elected civilian administration and the political chaos resulting from the continued uncertainties surrounding the transition program are examined. Some of the topics which are touched upon are the relationship between the state, capital accumulation, democratic forces, the characteristic political manipulation by the military and the attempt to hold on to power despite demand for civilian democratic rule, the problem of military intervention to the question of national integration, and the core problems of Nigerian economic management and the alternatives for effective management of the Nigerian economy in the Third Republic.
Author : Sabella O. Abidde
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1000913651
This book historicises and analyses the increasing incidence of xenophobia and nativism in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. It examines how xenophobia and nativism impact the political cohesion and social fabric of states and societies in the regions and offers solutions to aid policy formation and implementation. Rather than utilising an overarching framework, individual theory is applied to chapters to analyse the diverse connections between xenophobia and nativism in the regions. The book explores the economic, nationalistic, political, social, cultural, and psychological triggers for xenophobia and nativism and their impact on an increasingly interconnected and interrelated world. In addition to the individual and comparative examination of these triggers, the book outlines how they can be decreased or altered and argues that Pan-Africanism and the unity of purpose among diverse groups in the western hemisphere is still an ideal to which Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean can aspire. This book will be of interest to academics in the field of African history, African Studies, Caribbean and Latin American studies, cultural anthropology and comparative sociology.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN :
Author : Joseph Takougang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429971060
African State and Society in the 1990s is the first comprehensive English language book to appear on Cameroon's political events since 1989. Designed for academic and policy studies readers, it covers developments from the 1960s to the present as background for an analysis of the continuing conflict since 1990 between the regime and political oppos