Minority Rights And The National Question In Nigeria

Author : Uyilawa Usuanlele
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319506307
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria written by Uyilawa Usuanlele and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria. Nigeria provides a framework for examining the central paradox in post-colonial nation building projects in Africa – the tension between majority rule and minority rights. The liberal democratic model on which most African states were founded at independence from colonial rule, and to which they continue to aspire, is founded on majority rule. It is also founded on the protection of the rights of minority groups to political participation, social inclusion and economic resources. Maintaining this tenuous balance between majority rule and minority rights has, in the decades since independence, become the key national question in many African countries, perhaps none more so than Nigeria. This volume explores these issues, focusing on four key themes as they relate to minority rights in Nigeria: ethnic and religious identities, nationalism and federalism, political crises and armed conflicts.

Author : John Tor Tsuwa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789785333152
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Identities, the National Question and the Challenges of Minorities in Nigeria written by John Tor Tsuwa and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abubakar Momoh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351753290
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The National Question in Nigeria written by Abubakar Momoh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: Addressing the burning questions confronting the Nigerian nation-state today, this book explores the diverse dimensions and voices apparent in the challenges surrounding the national question. Highlighting a range of under-researched and unexplored issues, it theoretically and empirically examines key aspects of the national question discourse and debate in Nigeria. The contributors bring wide and varied experiences to bear on the volume and employ both these experiences and the multidisciplinary approach to illuminate and enrich the issues under study. The National Question in Nigeria identifies challenges that must be addressed if the nation is to survive - and critical issues that have been left unresolved and now threaten the nation state. It is essential reading for social scientists, policy makers, politicians, NGO activists and all observers and students of Nigerian history and politics.

Author : Abubakar Momoh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315191843
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The National Question in Nigeria written by Abubakar Momoh and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This title was first published in 2002: Addressing the burning questions confronting the Nigerian nation-state today, this book explores the diverse dimensions and voices apparent in the challenges surrounding the national question. Highlighting a range of under-researched and unexplored issues, it theoretically and empirically examines key aspects of the national question discourse and debate in Nigeria. The contributors bring wide and varied experiences to bear on the volume and employ both these experiences and the multidisciplinary approach to illuminate and enrich the issues under study. ?The National Question in Nigeria? identifies challenges that must be addressed if the nation is to survive - and critical issues that have been left unresolved and now threaten the nation state. It is essential reading for social scientists, policy makers, politicians, NGO activists and all observers and students of Nigerian history and politics."--Provided by publisher.

Author : J. Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230377378
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bolsheviks and the National Question, 1917–23 written by J. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-01-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a timely re-examination of the origins of the system which fell apart so dramatically in 1991, this book deals with the policies of the Soviets towards the non-Russian nationalities of the former Russian Empire. Making extensive use of previously unavailable material from the Soviet archives, Jeremy Smith explores the attempts of the Bolsheviks to promote the development of minority nationalities in the Soviet context, through a combination of political, cultural and educational measures, and looks at the disputes surrounding the creation of the Soviet Union.

Author : Sunday Bobai Agang
Publisher : Langham Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839737077
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Endangered Moral Values written by Sunday Bobai Agang and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The erosion of moral values on a global scale has left nations vulnerable to greed, power, and violence as the shaping forces of culture. In the absence of an ethical foundation, corruption reverberates through public life, destabilizing countries and undermining human flourishing. Examining the many challenges facing Nigeria in the twenty-first century, Dr. Sunday Bobai Agang suggests that his homeland is experiencing just such a crisis – one rooted not in religion, economics, or politics but rather an eroding moral foundation. For a nation to thrive, he argues, its people must possess a moral and ethical vision characterized by sincerity and truth, love and unity. Far from representing impractical ideals, these are the virtues upon which a nation’s security and stability depend. Endangered Moral Values offers both a powerful warning of the dangers inherent in ignoring a society’s ethical and moral decay and a passionate invitation for citizens to work together towards a transformed future.

Author : Rogers Brubaker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521576499
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nationalism Reframed written by Rogers Brubaker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of nationalism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union develops an original account of the interlocking and opposed nationalisms of national minorities, the nationalizing states in which they live, and the external national homelands to which they are linked by external ties.

Author : Cyril I. Obi
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171064714
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Forms of Identity Politics in Nigeria Under Economic Adjustment written by Cyril I. Obi and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Niger delta region of Nigeria which is at the heart of the country's oil industry, has a long history of struggles for self-determination dating back to the early years of the 20[superscript th] century. In the 1980s and 1990s, these struggles, unfolding as they did within the context of military authoritarianism and structural adjustment, took the form of widespread agitation for greater control by local communities of the revenues accruing to the Nigerian state from exploration and extraction of oil." "This study attempts to capture the transformations in ethnic minority identity politics in the oil-producing areas of the Niger delta. In doing this, attention is simultaneously drawn to the factors informing the shift from peaceful agitation to violent protest as well as the dynamic of decay and renewal in the various ethnic minority movements that are active in the delta. It is suggested that part of the solution to the crisis in the delta will involve not only a thorough-going restructuring of the Nigerian state but also the re-orientation of the mode of operation of the giant oil multinationals in order to make them both more sensitive and accountable to the local communities."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Edited by Romola Adeola & Ademola Oluborode Jegede
Publisher : Pretoria University Law Press
ISBN 13 : 192053881X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governance in Nigeria post-1999: Revisiting the democratic ‘new dawn’ of the Fourth Republic written by Edited by Romola Adeola & Ademola Oluborode Jegede and published by Pretoria University Law Press. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic on 29 May 1999, there was great optimism as to the emergence of a new democratic future representing a significant break from the political undulations of the past. Two decades and four presidential epochs later, there is a prevalent question as to how well Nigeria has fared in governance and human rights post-1999. This book revisits the democratic ‘new dawn’ of the Fourth Republic discussing pertinent matters integral to Nigeria’s democratic future post-2019.

Author : Rabiat Akande
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316511553
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entangled Domains written by Rabiat Akande and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first account of the sustained entanglement of law, religion, and empire in Northern Nigeria.