Author: Mike OkoyePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Towards a Better Nigeria: 1957-1989
Author: Mike OkoyeThe Inaugural Addresses and Ascension Speeches of Nigerian Elected and Non-elected Presidents and Prime Minister, 1960-2010
Author: Solomon Williams ObotetukudoPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761852743
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This collection of inaugural and ascension speeches facilitates comparison of presidential themes, leadership styles, personal philosophies, and evolutionary communication strategies in Nigerian nation building. Each chapter opens with biographical notes on the speaker, followed by an introduction to the prevalent political climate; each chapter ends with the leader's unabridged speech.
Repressive State and Resurgent Media Under Nigeria's Military Dictatorship, 1988-98
Author: Ayo OlukotunPublisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171065247
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This study documents a crucial dimension of the resistance of Nigerian civil society to a repressive and monumentally corrupt military state in the late 1980s and 1990s in Nigeria. Employing a neo-Gramscian theoretical framework, the study relates how a section of the media defied censorship laws, outright bans, incarceration and the assassination of opposition figures, to prosecute the struggle for democracy. It captures the tensions and contradictions between a pliant section of the media which sought to legitimise the state and a critical section of the same media which, in alliance with radical civil society, invented rebellious outlets to carry on the struggle against dictatorship. The study seeks to make fresh departures by documenting not only the role of the national media in the throes of democratic struggle, but that of the international media whose role was influential in the years studied. Finally the report offers empirical proof of the mechanisms by which a vibrant civil society can curb the ravages of a predatory state in an African country. Book jacket.
Nigeria, a Country Study
Author: Carlyn Dawn AndersonPublisher:
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Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Price of Oil
Author: Bronwen ManbyPublisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322258
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Attempts to Import Weapons
Our Common Future
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195531916
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Understanding Modern Nigeria
Author: Toyin FalolaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108837972
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
An introduction to the politics and society of post-colonial Nigeria, highlighting the key themes of ethnicity, democracy, and development.
Election Violence in Nigeria
Author: State Repression, Crisis of Democratization and Media Resistance in Nigeria (1988-1999)
Author: Ayo OlukotunPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Contemporary Nigerian Politics
Author: A. Carl LeVanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108569218
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
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.