The eminent African novelist and critic, here addresses Nigeria's problems, aiming to challenge the resignation of Nigerians and inspire them to reject old habits which inhibit Nigeria from becoming a...
Publicly, however, Zakzaki renounces the use of violence.34 In Sokoto, Malam Umaru Dan Maishiyya was murdered in July 2007 as he left his mosque, having just delivered a fiery sermon.
This volume will be of considerable interest to scholars of Africa, researchers in the humanities, social sciences, and conflict studies, and policymakers interested in understanding the resource crisis in Africa.
History of Nigeria: Nigeria before 1800 AD
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.
Nigeria and South Africa provide the socioeconomic and political contrasts in the African condition. Some of these contrasts can be demonstrated in the following dialectics: Nigeria is the Africa of...
The first edition of State and Society in Nigeria, published in 1980, was and remains a dominant influence in teaching, research, policy and practice of state-society relations in Nigeria for more than a generation.
Nkrumah was strongly influenced by Jamaica-born, longtime US resident Marcus Garvey, the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and organizer of the American “back to Africa” movement. Garvey founded a shipping company, ...
Noo Saro-Wiwa returns to Nigeria for the first time since her activist father died there, a trip on which she is struck by the level of government corruption but also by the country's unique geography and captivating population.
Siri Rustad, Power-Sharing and Conflict in Nigmia (working paper, Center for the Study of Civil War, Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2008). 36. The Nigerian zonal (or regional) system is as follows: North West (Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, ...