Download or read book Reflections on the Political Evolution of One Nigeria written by Ukpabi Asika and published by . This book was released on 1969* with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections On Yoruba Nationalism written by Adeyinka Shoyemi and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings and speeches of Adeyinka Grandson revolve around the volatile history of the Ibo, Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba generated by politics and not race or ethnicity. The Yoruba nationalism has never been about ethnic cleansing or racial divide, but about creating a fair, just and proportionate system of political rule which benefits all those who resides within the border of Nigeria, regardless of ethnicity. Adeyinka Grandson posted videos and written articles on various social media platforms. In posting such material, he does not intend to stir up racial hatred. Furthermore, he does not accept that racial hatred was likely to be stirred up as a consequence of his posts. Adeyinka Grandson is a Yoruba nationalist who belongs to the Yoruba ethnic group. He had two grandfathers. The first was an Akoko-Yoruba, and the second was a Remo-Yoruba. He, likewise had two grandmothers. The first one was Ondo-Yoruba and the other one was Ijebu-Yoruba. These four grandparents jointly produced the parents of Adeyinka Grandson. He, consequently, has Yoruba bloodlines from Akoko, Remo, Ondo, and Ijebu respectively. But does not accept that the history of disharmony among the Yoruba, Hausa/Fulani and Ibo people is rooted in racial hatred or ethnicity. The divided and sometimes violent history was a direct consequence of the English's colonialism in Nigeria, and the subsequent pursuit of power and wealth amongst the Yoruba, Fulani and Ibo people. The Yoruba people have been the victims rather than the beneficiaries of Nigeria's political dysfunction for many years. The motivation for the writings and speeches of Adeyinka Grandson was to raise awareness of what he considers to be the marginalization and abuse of the Yoruba people who are in Nigeria, to educate and empower the Yoruba people, to ensure that they pursue a fair and even distribution of land and resources. At all times, his actions were designed and intended to generate discussion, organized resistance and affirmative political action with the ultimate objective of reclaiming Yorubaland out of Nigeria and into the Oduduwa Republic. Alternatively, campaign for a return to the parliamentary system of government as agreed by the Yoruba, Ibo, and Hausa/Fulani communities before Nigeria's independence in 1960. He has sometimes advocated recourse to self-defense, the defense of property and organized resistance. Any reference to violence was rooted in politics as opposed to race or ethnicity and was neither designed nor intended to stoke racial hatred. Over the past 20 years, Adeyinka Grandson has written extensively on the history and relations between the Ibo, Fulani and Yoruba communities in Nigeria. These texts have been both academic and political. In 1999, and while still a university student, he and others formed the Cheated Generation Group. The aim of the movement was to promote a return to a parliamentary system of government in Nigeria or to create the Oduduwa Republic. It intended to inform policymaking and support community groups and individuals to influence decision making in local communities. In 2012, the movement, renamed themselves the Young Yoruba for Freedom (YYF), as they have evolved into a conservative movement, providing education and an understanding of liberty, individual freedom, strong national defense, free enterprise, and self preservation to ensure that increasing numbers of young Yoruba understand and are inspired by these ideas. The current unitary presidential system in Nigeria takes resources and revenue from Yorubaland, and disproportionately uses it to fund the economic growth and development of the Hausa/Fulani and Ibo regions. The ultimate objective of the YYF is to campaign for the liberation of Yorubaland and form an independent Oduduwa Republic in the absence of a return to the regional system of government in Nigeria.
Download or read book Reflections on Nigerian Development written by Allison Akene Ayida and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections on Politics Democratic Governance and Development in Post colonial Nigeria written by Razaq A. Adefulu and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Governance written by Femi Adelegan and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governance: An Insider s Reflections is rooted in theories and concepts on various aspects of public administration, international relations and good governance; and is very well illustrated with practical examples of occurences in Nigeria, the most populous and influential nation in Africa, in which the author who has served in five different governments. Most of the problems and issues treated in the publication deal with governance procedures in a leading economy in Africa. Nigeria is an influential nation, regarded as the engine of the economy of West-Africa, a motivator of the African Union, the largest black nation in the world, a catalyst of the African Renaissance; harbouring about 25 percent of the population of Africa; and the largest market for foreign investors in the continent. With significant contributions to global peace and development, governance procedures and the need to move the developing world along the path of progress is treated exhaustively in this publication. The book provides an illuminating insight into governance, and enables the reader to draw knowledge from an academic point of view and provides guidelines for a practitioner. It is well illustrated with authenticated examples on issues pertaining to governance, particularly in Third World countries that are currently plagued by political instability and under-development. The book suggests the necessary changes that should be firmly embedded into the process of governance. The author treats issues that could make developing nations move even faster to get re-orientated for improvements in the political and bureaucratic systems.The book is useful for students and practitioners of politics, international relations, history and power chroniclers in both the advanced and developing nations, this era of globalization."
Download or read book Reflections on Nigerian Politics written by A. O. Mutiullah and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections on the Nigerian Civil War written by Raph Uwechue and published by Trafford on Demand Pub. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comment on the First Edition from Lagos' Sunday Times: "The most unimpassioned account, to date, of the Nigerian civil War...Reflections is a book for any shelf..."
Download or read book Towards a Better Nigeria written by Joseph Olukayode Akinbi and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nigeria and the Nation State written by John Campbell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigeria, despite being the African country of greatest strategic importance to the U.S., remains poorly understood. John Campbell explains why Nigeria is so important to understand in a world of jihadi extremism, corruption, oil conflict, and communal violence. The revised edition provides updates through the recent presidential election.
Download or read book The Origins of Political Order written by Francis Fukuyama and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins. Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order. This book starts with the very beginning of mankind and comes right up to the eve of the French and American revolutions, spanning such diverse disciplines as economics, anthropology and geography. The Origins of Political Order is a magisterial study on the emergence of mankind as a political animal, by one of the most eminent political thinkers writing today.
Download or read book The Great Upheaval written by Judith A. Byfield and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This social and intellectual history of women’s political activism in postwar Nigeria reveals the importance of gender to the study of nationalism and poses new questions about Nigeria’s colonial past and independent future. In the years following World War II, the women of Abeokuta, Nigeria, staged a successful tax revolt that led to the formation first of the Abeokuta Women’s Union and then of Nigeria’s first national women’s organization, the Nigerian Women’s Union, in 1949. These organizations became central to a new political vision, a way for women across Nigeria to define their interests, desires, and needs while fulfilling the obligations and responsibilities of citizenship. In The Great Upheaval, Judith A. Byfield has crafted a finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making that not only tells a story of women’s postwar activism but also grounds it in a nuanced account of the complex tax system that generated the “upheaval.” Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in Nigeria’s postwar period and illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism. She thus offers new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state. Ultimately, she challenges readers to problematize the collapse of her female subjects' greatest aspiration, universal franchise, when the country achieved independence in 1960.
Download or read book Nigeria written by Richard Bourne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If you want to understand Nigeria's history in one succinct go, this is a very good choice.' Noo Saro-Wiwa Known as the African Giant, Nigeria's story is complex and often contradictory. How, despite the ravages of colonialism, civil war, ongoing economic disappointment and most recently the Boko Haram insurgency, has the country managed to stay together for a hundred years? Why, despite an abundance of oil, mineral and agricultural wealth, have so many of its people remained in poverty? These are the key questions explored by Richard Bourne in this remarkable and wide-ranging account of Nigeria's history, from its creation in 1914 to the historic 2015 elections and beyond. Featuring a wealth of original research and interviews, this is an essential insight into the shaping of a country where, despite the seemingly dashed optimism that was raised at independence, there still remains hope 'the Nigeria project' may still succeed.
Download or read book Development Dual Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa written by Robtel Neajai Pailey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on rich oral histories, this is an engaging study of citizenship construction and practice in Liberia, Africa's first black republic.
Download or read book Dictators and Democracy in African Development written by A. Carl LeVan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the structure of the policy-making process in Nigeria explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors.
Download or read book Contemporary Nigerian Politics written by A. Carl LeVan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book My Nigeria written by Peter Cunliffe-Jones and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later, his grandfather helped craft Nigeria's constitution and negotiate its independence, the first of its kind in Africa. Four decades later, Peter Cunliffe-Jones arrived as a journalist in the capital, Lagos, just as military rule ended, to face the country his family had a hand in shaping.Part family memoir, part history, My Nigeria is a piercing look at the colonial legacy of an emerging power in Africa. Marshalling his deep knowledge of the nation's economic, political, and historic forces, Cunliffe-Jones surveys its colonial past and explains why British rule led to collapse at independence. He also takes an unflinching look at the complicated country today, from email hoaxes and political corruption to the vast natural resources that make it one of the most powerful African nations; from life in Lagos's virtually unknown and exclusive neighborhoods to the violent conflicts between the numerous tribes that make up this populous African nation. 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.
Download or read book IFRA Special Research Issue written by Rasheed Olaniyi and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ugly phenomenon of terrorism has a long history, it hit the world like a thunderstorm in the 1970s, especially with the 1972 Black Septembist kidnapping of Jewish athletes during the Munich Olympic, and the plane hijacking that led to the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport in 1976 to free Jewish hostages, however, it was the September 11, 2001 attacks by suicide bombers against the United States that transformed terrorism into a new kind of warfare: they hijacked three separate civil aircraft and turned them into instruments of mass destruction by crashing them into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, the July 7, 2005 multiple bombing of London confirms to a great extent this new thinking of about terrorism.
