Author: Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-09-28
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 3030738752
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the ways in which colonialism continues to define the political economy of Nigeria sixty years after gaining political independence from the British. It also establishes a link between colonialism and the continued agitation for restructuring the political arrangement of the country. The contributions offer various perspectives on how the forceful amalgamation of disparate units and diverse nationalities have undermined the realization of the development potential of Nigeria. The book is divided into two parts. The first part interrogates the political economy of colonialism and the implications of this on economic development in contemporary Nigeria. The second part examines nation-building, governance, and development in a postcolonial state. The failure of the postcolonial political elites to ensure inclusive governance has continued to foster centrifugal and centripetal forces that question the legitimacy of the state. The forces have deepened calls for secession, accentuated conflicts and predispose the country to possible disintegration. A new government approach is required that would ensure equal representation, access to power and equitable distribution of resources.
Author: A. Carl LeVan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1107081149
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-07
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1136683879
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their chapters, making an important collective contribution to our understanding of modern Africa. Taken as a whole, the chapters represent the range of research in African development, and fully tie this development to the global political economy. African nations play significant roles in world politics, both as nations influenced by the ebbs and flows of the global economy and by the international political system, but also as actors, directly influencing politics and economics. It is only through an understanding of both the history and present place of Africa in global affairs that we can begin to assess the way forward for future development.
Author: Peter Lewis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2007-04-17
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0472069802
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Author: W. J. Okowa
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9789782517432
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Tom Forrest
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-11
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1000307409
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the end of civil war in 1970, Nigeria has struggled to build a stronger federal center and to reduce conflicts that have arisen from uneven development and from ethnic, regional, class and religious differences. This book provides a comprehensive account of the dynamic interplay between the political and economic forces that have shaped gover
Author: Jeremiah I. Dibua
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-28
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1351152904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, Jeremiah I. Dibua challenges prevailing notions of Africa's development crisis by drawing attention to the role of modernization as a way of understanding the nature and dynamics of the crisis, and how to overcome the problem of underdevelopment. He specifically focuses on Nigeria and its development trajectory since it exemplifies the crisis of underdevelopment in the continent. He explores various theoretical and empirical issues involved in understanding the crisis, including state, class, gender and culture, often neglected in analysis, from an interdisciplinary, radical political economy perspective. This is the first book to adopt such an approach and to develop a new framework for analyzing Nigeria's and Africa's development crisis. It will influence the debate on the development dilemma of African and Third World societies and will be of interest to scholars and students of race and ethnicity, modern African history, class analysis, gender studies, and development studies.
Author: Claude Ake
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: I. William Zartman
Publisher: Praeger Pub Text
Published: 1983-02-01
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780275918187
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