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Author : Max Siollun
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 1787382028
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Nigeria's Soldiers of Fortune written by Max Siollun and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2019 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mini-history of a nation's life told in the stories of three protagonists
Author : 'Kunle Amuwo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Nigeria During the Abacha Years written by 'Kunle Amuwo and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Olusegun Adeniyi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last 100 Days of Abacha written by Olusegun Adeniyi and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Cunliffe-Jones
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0230112609
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book My Nigeria written by Peter Cunliffe-Jones and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Max Siollun
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 087586709X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Oil, Politics and Violence written by Max Siollun and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An insider traces the details of hope and ambition gone wrong in the Giant of Africa, Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. When it gained independence from Britain in 1960, hopes were high that, with mineral wealth and over 140 million people, the most educated workforce in Africa, Nigeria would become Africa s first superpower and a stabilizing democratic influence in the region. However, these lofty hopes were soon dashed and the country lumbered from crisis to crisis, with the democratic government eventually being overthrown in a violent military coup in January 1966. From 1966 until 1999, the army held onto power almost uninterrupted under a succession of increasingly authoritarian military governments and army coups. Military coups and military rule (which began as an emergency aberration) became a seemingly permanent feature of Nigerian politics. The author names names, and explores how British influence aggravated indigenous rivalries. He shows how various factions in the military were able to hold onto power and resist civil and international pressure for democratic governance by exploiting the country's oil wealth and ethnic divisions to its advantage."--Publisher's description.
Author : Bronwen Manby
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 : 9781564322258
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The Price of Oil written by Bronwen Manby and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1999 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to Import Weapons
Author : Sanya Osha
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 191223484X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Ken Saro- Wiwa's Shadow written by Sanya Osha and published by Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Niger Delta region of Nigeria had a long standing history of crises even before the late Ken Saro-Wiwa helped to bring these crises to the attention of the world. The international community increasingly needs Nigerian oil largely because of the political dislocations and uncertainties in some of the major oil-producing regions of the world. But unfortunately the crises in the Niger Delta, which produces most of Nigeria's oil, have also been escalating to alarming proportions, often turning the region into a site of seemingly unending uncertainty and conflicts. The book focuses on Ogoniland - one of the oil-producing communities that make up the Niger Delta. It examines the colonial origins of these crises and their links to the dynamics of petroleum exploitation in the region as well as to the structure of Nigeria's contemporary political economy. It relates the ways in which the crises in Ogoniland are connected to the generalised turmoil in the Niger Delta and argues that they are often exacerbated - rather than attenuated - by the Nigerian federal process and its unique combination of militarism, ethnicity and religion.
Author : A. D. E. OSIJO
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The Abacha We Knew written by A. D. E. OSIJO and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the time late Gen. Sani Abacha seized power by overthrowing the regime of Ernest Shonekan, Abacha was an officer whose name was synonymous with the game of upstaging both military and democratically elected regimes in Nigeria. He was fearless and bold, as a military officer. His brief regime gave rise to so many uprisings and unrest, in the quest of the politicians and the Nigerian masses to reclaim the mandate of the democratically elected president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in the person of late M.K.O Abiola, who was the presidential flag bearer of the Social Democratic Party. The regime of Abacha and his erstwhile deputy, Lt.Gen. Oladipo Diya, was characterized by political assassinations and imprisonment of the opposition.
Author : A. Carl LeVan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108569218
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Nigerian Politics written by A. Carl LeVan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Dukor, Maduabuchi
Publisher : Malthouse Press
ISBN 13 : 9785579824
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Mohammed Chris Alli's The Federal Republic of Nigerian Army written by Dukor, Maduabuchi and published by Malthouse Press. This book was released on 2018-07-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mohammed Chris Alli is a retired Nigerian Army Major General who served as Chief of Army Staff from 1993 to 1994 under General Sanni Abacha's regime and was military governor of Plateau State Nigeria from August 1985 to 1986 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. Many years later, he was appointed interim administrator of the state during a 2004 crisis in the state following ethno-religious killings in Shendam, Yelwa Local Government. In this anthology, organized as a symposium on Mohammed Christopher Alli’s work, he is identified as one of those critical and rational thinkers, philosophers, albeit, a General in the Nigerian Army, whose work finds a befitting logical space in the contemporary African philosophical tapestry. The book also captures the elements of military misrule in Nigeria and its undue influence on the body polity; it is a critical survey of past military misadventures, and a satire against false federalism, it is a firm warning against future corruption and impunity in the military.
Author : Isaac Olawale Albert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (923 download)
Download or read book IFRA Special Research Issue Vol. 1 written by Isaac Olawale Albert and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chuma Nwokolo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789782190109
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Ghost of Sani Abacha written by Chuma Nwokolo and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harassed servant plots his grim revenge (A History of Human Servitude)... Sheri puts a potential boyfriend to the test (Man Rating)... Phiri contends for his civil service career (The Fall of Phiri Bombai)...and a politician in his finest hour finds himself possessed by a begoggled demon (The Ghost of Sani Abacha)...26 stories of life and love in the aftermath of autocracy, delivered with wit and insight by one of Africa's most incisive writers.
Author : Levi Akalazu Nwachuku
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761827122
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (271 download)
Download or read book Troubled Journey written by Levi Akalazu Nwachuku and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troubled Journey: Nigeria Since the Civil War is the latest of a number of case-study probes into Nigeria's unique experience as a modern African state. It pulls together a talented group of Nigerian historians who have been close students of Nigeria's "troubled journey" since Independence Day on October 1, 1960, and more precisely since the conclusion of its devastating Civil War from 1967 to 1970. This book is a major contribution to the on-going debate about how the country can best be politically restructured and socio-economically reformed.
Author : Aribidesi Usman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107064600
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present written by Aribidesi Usman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.
Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 9780809012268
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Madmen and Specialists written by Wole Soyinka and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 1987-09-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An African playwright reveals his thoughts on man's betrayal of his vocation for power in this drama
Author : A. Carl LeVan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107081149
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Dictators and Democracy in African Development written by A. Carl LeVan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the structure of the policy-making process in Nigeria explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors.
Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195119213
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)
Download or read book The Open Sore of a Continent written by Wole Soyinka and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
