Author: Ikenna Nzimiro
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: Karl Maier
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786730617
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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To understand Africa, one must understand Nigeria, and few Americans understand Nigeria better than Karl Maier. This House Has Fallen is a bracing and disturbing report on the state of Africa's most populous, potentially richest, and most dangerously dysfunctional nation. Each year, with depressing consistency, Nigeria is declared the most corrupt state in the entire world. Though Nigeria is a nation into which billions of dollars of oil money flow, its per capita income has fallen dramatically in the past two decades. Military coup follows military coup. A bellwether for Africa, it is a country of rising ethnic tensions and falling standards of living, very possibly on the verge of utter collapse -- a collapse that could dramatically overshadow even the massacres in Rwanda. A brilliant piece of reportage and travel writing, This House Has Fallenlooks into the Nigerian abyss and comes away with insight, profound conclusions, and even some hope. Updated with a new preface by the author.

Author: Ademola Adediji
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3658134836
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 529

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In view of the explosion of violent conflicts in many parts of the world and the hasty, but prevailing, assumption that ethnicity is the source of these conflicts, this book is encompassed to highlight, describe and examine how ethnicity is politicized in many of these current conflicts. By deploying the instrumentalist approach and the theory of identity and difference in ethnicity, the author identifies the actors involved and depicts how religion is exploited as an instrument of division by reflecting it on the Nigerian situation, exploring the examples of the Jos conflicts and the Warri Crisis within a twenty years period, 1990 to 2010.

Author: John Campbell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1442221585
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Nigeria, the United States’ most important strategic partner in West Africa, is in grave trouble. While Nigerians often claim they are masters of dancing on the brink without falling off, the disastrous administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, the radical Islamic insurrection Boko Haram, and escalating violence in the delta and the north may finally provide the impetus that pushes it into the abyss of state failure. In this thoroughly updated edition, John Campbell explores Nigeria’s post-colonial history and presents a nuanced explanation of the events and conditions that have carried this complex, dynamic, and very troubled giant to the edge. Central to his analysis are the oil wealth, endemic corruption, and elite competition that have undermined Nigeria’s nascent democratic institutions and alienated an increasingly impoverished population. However, state failure is not inevitable, nor is it in the interest of the United States. Campbell provides concrete new policy options that would not only allow the United States to help Nigeria avoid state failure but also to play a positive role in Nigeria’s political, social, and economic development.

Author: John Oyinbo
Publisher: London : C. Knight
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Analysis of political problems in Nigeria from 1960 to 1970 - covers interethnic relations, social conflict, civil war, nationalism, etc. References.

Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195119213
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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The events that led up to dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa's execution in 1995 marked Nigeria's decline from a post-colonial success story to its current military dictatorship. Wole Soyinka, whose own Nigerian passport was confiscated by the Nigerian military in 1994, explores the history and future of Nigeria in a compelling jeremiad that is as intense as it is provocative, learned, and wide-ranging.

Author: Carlyn Dawn Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309111188
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Developed in collaboration with the Nigerian Academy of Science, this report explores the ways in which science-based private enterprises can be created and encouraged in Nigeria and other developing countries to provide products and services that government is unable to supply in a timely and sustainable manner. Focusing on three critical challenges to health and developmentâ€"safe water, electrical lighting, and malaria therapyâ€"the report identifies a sample technology to address each of these challenges with potential for commercialization in Nigeria and Africa, and uses that sample technology to identify opportunities and barriers to creating the science-based enterprises in Nigeria.

Author: Robert Adeyinka Adebayo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Human Rights Watch
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447318498
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 680

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Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2014 is the global rights watchdog’s flagship 24th annual review of global trends and news in human rights. An invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, it features not only incisive country surveys but also hard-hitting essays highlighting key human rights issues and striking photo essays by award-winning photographers. Customers outside of the UK and Europe: copies are available from Sevenstories.com