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Nigeria's stumbling democracy and its implications for Africa's democratic movement / edited by Victor Oguejiofor Okafor ; foreword by Toyin Falola.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- PSI reports (Westport, Conn.)
- PSI reports
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democratization--Africa.
- Democratization.
- Democratization--Nigeria.
- Elections--Nigeria.
- Elections.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2024.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nigeria's Stumbling Democracy and its Implications for Africa's Democratic Movement is the first book to recount and analyze Nigeria's controversial general elections of April 2007. Because Nigeria's immense and diverse population of 140 million people and its wealth of natural resources make it a microcosm of Africa, Nigerian politics are an ideal case study and bellwether by which to view and understand African politics and the ongoing democratic experiments on the continent. Ten leading scholars of Nigerian and African politics, variously based in Nigeria, the US, and Europe, contribute ori
- Contents:
- Introduction / Victor Oguejiofor Okafor
- An overview of Nigeria's political history / Gloria Emeagwali
- Nigeria's disputed elections and the resultant leadership legitimacy crisis / Victor Oguejiofor Okafor
- Democracy on sale : the 2007 elections and the future of the democratic movement in Africa / Nkolika Ebele Obianyo
- Dialectics of patronage politics and representative democracy : the case of Anambra State of Nigeria / Godwin Onu & Makodi Biereenu-Nnabugwu
- Is electronic voting an answer to Nigeria's electoral problems? / Godwin Onu
- The role of geographical zoning in Nigeria's democracy / Abayomi Ferreira
- Nigeria's 2007 elections and the future of democracy in Africa : an optimistic view / Sylvester Odion-Akhaine
- Nigeria's 2007 elections : a great danger for the future of democracy in Africa / Adeyinka O. Banwo
- Nigeria's 2007 elections in comparative perspective : democratic capitalism and the crisis of democracy in Africa / Rita Kiki Edozie
- Democracy and development in Africa : important lessons from African American history / Sule Bello.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798400691577
- 9786612341373
- 9781282341371
- 1282341375
- 9780313355875
- 0313355878
- OCLC:
- 247098972
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