Download or read book Class Ethnicity and Democracy in Nigeria written by Larry Diamond and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1988-08-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overthrow in January 1966 of Nigeria’s First Republic erased what had been regarded as perhaps the most promising prospect for liberal democracy in post-colonial Africa. Marking the sweeping failure of parliamentary institutions across a continent of new nations, it accelerated the slide into a ghastly civil war. Class, Ethnicity and Democracy is the first scholarly study to analyze the evolution, decay, and failure of Nigeria’s First Republic and to weigh this crucial experience against theories of the conditions for stable democratic government. Rejecting explanations that focus on political culture, political institutions, or ethnic competition and conflict, Larry Diamond identifies the root of Nigeria’s democratic failure in the interrelationship between class, ethnic and state structures. This led the emergent dominant class in each region to mobilize and exploit ethnicity and to trample the democratic process in furious competition for state control, since that control was the primary means for accumulating wealth and consolidating class dominance. Tracing the polarization of conflict and the erosion of legitimacy through five major crises, Diamond presents a new methodology for analyzing the persistence and failure of democracies and points to the relationship between state and society as a crucial determinant of the possibility for liberal democracy.
Download or read book Population Census of Nigeria 1963 written by Western Nigeria (Nigeria). Regional Census Office and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Population Census of Nigeria written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 1963 Nigerian Census written by I. I. Ekanem and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph comprising an evaluation of the nature and extent of distortion in the statistical data resulting from the 1963 population census of Nigeria - discusses nigeria's demographic problems, appraises the reported data of the 1963 census (incl. In respect of age group, sex, ethnic factors, occupation, etc.), and includes information on the reported age structure of the population as opposed to projections made in the 1953 census. Bibliography pp. 205 to 207, graphs, map, references and statistical tables.
Download or read book Population Census of Nigeria 1973 written by Western State, Nigeria. National Census Office and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nigeria a Country Study written by Carlyn Dawn Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town written by Elisha P. Renne and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that progress and fertility cannot be expected to follow a universal trajectory
Download or read book Strangers and Traders written by Jeremy Seymour Eades and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of chain migration and its implications for economic development
Download or read book The Food and Financial Crises in Sub Saharan Africa written by Muna Ndulo and published by CABI. This book was released on 2011 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic increases in food prices, as witnessed on a global scale in recent years, threaten the food security of hundreds of millions of the rural poor in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. This book focuses on recent food and financial crises as they have affected Africa, illustrating the problems using country case studies that cover their origins, effects on agriculture and rural poverty, their underlying factors and making recommendations as to how such crises could best be addressed in the future.
Download or read book History of Yoruba Land written by Gbade Aladeojebi and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name Nigeria was coined in Lokoja by Flora Shaw, the future wife of Baron Lugard, a British colonial administrator, while gazing out at the river Niger. So, British colonialism created Nigeria as a country, joining diverse peoples and regions in an artificial political entity along the Niger River. The territory known today as Nigeria is a very large country of multi-ethnic groups of about four hundred. The land mass is large enough to accommodate France, Belgium and Italy. The name Nigeria is derived from the River Niger which traverses the country from the North to the South. Nigeria is located on the coast of Western Africa. It has an area of 356,669 square miles (923,768 square km). At its greatest expanse, it measures about 1,200 kilometres (about 750 mi) from East to West and about 1,050 kilometres (about 650 mi) from North to South. It is bordered to the north by Niger, the east by Chad and Cameroon, the south by the Gulf of Guinea, and to the west by Benin. Niger River and the Benue, are its largest tributary, are the principal rivers in the country. The area that is now Nigeria was home to ethnically based kingdoms and tribal communities before it became a European colony. In spite of European contact that began in the 16th century, these kingdoms and communities maintains their autonomy until the 19th century. Federal Republic of Nigeria is a constitutional Federal Republic comprising 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja. The principal groups in the Northern part are Hausa, Fulani, Kanuri, and Nupe. Other minority tribes also inhabits the Middle belt area, these include the Jukun, the Chamba and the Bata. In the region north of the upper Benue valley various ethnic groups such as Fali, Gabun, Gude, Gudu, Higi, Hona Mbula, Mumuye and Tika also inhabits the area. In the Southwest we have the Yoruba, another principal ethnic group and in the Southeast we have the Igbo people which form the third principal ethnic group. In the South-south we have the group of minorities such as Annang, Efik, Ibibio, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Isoko Uhrobo and Ukwiani. The entire ethnic group in Nigeria is over 500, parts of these are listed in appropriate section of this book.
Download or read book The Family in Africa written by Man Singh Das and published by M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Family in Africa is a valuable source book. It introduces the reader to the effect of industrialisation, urbanization and modernization on African society and consequent changes in family structure, marriage institution, kith relationship, sex role and lifestyle in third world countries- especially in Nigeria, somalia, tanzania, Swaizland and Libya.
Download or read book Industrialization in an Open Economy Nigeria 1945 1966 written by Peter Kilby and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1967 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Dynamics in Black Africa written by William J. Hanna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Dynamics in Black Africa presents a succession of worlds where we can study the development and the crystallization of major social change. The authors trace the development of former villages, towns, and colonial outposts into major cities within the international community. Open-air markets continue their trading beside modern department stores as individual Africans create contemporary lives from old and new. William J. and Judith L. Hanna, in this unique work, introduce new data and the methods of dependency theory, class and gender analysis; they offer connections between Africa's internal dynamics, its legacy of imperialism, and the international political and economic arena. At the same time, the book provides a model for studying the evolution of political institutions. Urban Dynamics in Black Africa illustrates how social classes modify and are modified by existing cultural forms. The book examines Africa in its independence by contrasting development and dependency, role adaptability and conflict, in a powerful conceptual matrix. Detailing the urban conditions that exist throughout Africa as well as their costs and benefits, this work shows how contemporary political conflict in urban Africa is based upon both ethnic and non-ethnic ties; and how these ethnic and non-ethnic ties serve as the bases of a system of political integration unique to poly-ethnic communities. As a synthesis of the relevant available knowledge on African towns and town-dwellers, this book is concerned primarily with the effects of external intervention and socioeconomic modernization upon the birth and development of Africa's new towns and the rapid expansion of its old ones. It considers the impact of migration and town life upon Africans.
Download or read book Roles of Women in Muslim Countries written by Man Singh Das and published by M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains original scientific articles about the changing roles of women in developing countries of the Middle East.He also identifies directions of change in Women's roles in Muslim countries.This collection of articles will be valuable in comparative study of women and other countries.In particular,sociologists and other social scientist in western and non-western countries are more likely to benefit from these changing roles of Muslim women.
Download or read book Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses written by United Nations. Statistical Division and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The population and housing census is part of an integrated national statistical system, which may include other censuses (for example, agriculture), surveys, registers and administrative files. It provides, at regular intervals, the benchmark for population count at national and local levels. For small geographical areas or sub-populations, it may represent the only source of information for certain social, demographic and economic characteristics. For many countries the census also provides a solid framework to develop sampling frames. This publication represents one of the pillars for data collection on the number and characteristics of the population of a country.
Download or read book Nigeria Echoes of a Century 1914 1999 written by Ifeoha Azikiwe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echoes of a Century discusses fundamental issues in Nigeria's loose federation as well as unresolved national challenges in the past 100 years. It also examines the issue of leadership and its ceaseless manipulation through zoning, federal character, demography, ethnicity and religion that revolve around individuals against national interest; the politics and illusion of oil wealth that has become the nation's albatross; endemic corruption and societal decadence that negate her growth and development, and the clamour for a national conference to renegotiate the country's future.
