Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
253
Utgivningsdatum
2017-03-29
Upplaga
1st ed. 2017
Förlag
Springer International Publishing AG
Medarbetare
Usuanlele, Uyilawa (ed.), Ibhawoh, Bonny (ed.)
Illustratör/Fotograf
Bibliographie 10 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen
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XV, 253 p.
Dimensioner
210 x 148 x 16 mm
Vikt
477 g
Antal komponenter
1
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1 Hardback
ISBN
9783319506296

Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria

av Uyilawa Usuanlele, Bonny Ibhawoh
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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.
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Uyilawa Usuanlele is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York (SUNY) Oswego, USA. Bonny Ibhawoh is Professor of African History and Global Human Rights at McMaster University, Canada.

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1. Introduction: Minorities and the National Question in Nigeria.- I. Minorities, Colonialism and Decolonization.- 2. Decolonization and the Minority Question in Nigeria: The Willink Commission Revisited.- 3. Historicizing Ethnic Groups Movements and State Creation in Nigeria, 1947-1967.- 4. Minority Groups: Bridgeheads in Nigerian Politics, 1950s 1966.- II. Minorities and Postcolonial Politics.- 5. The Owegbe Cult: Political and Ethnic Rivalries in Early Post-Colonial Benin City.- 6. Midwest Regions Non-Igbo Minorities Responses to Biafran Occupation and Federal Liberation in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970.- 7. Ethnicity, War and Military Politics in Nigeria.- III. Minorities and Contemporary Nation-Building.- 8. Willinks Report, Niger Delta Region and the Nigerian State Fifty Years After: Any Hope for the Minority?.- 9. National Integration, Citizenship, Political Participation and Democratic Stability in Nigeria.- 10. Ethnic Minorities and the Quest for National Integration in Nigeria: Federalism and State Creation to the Rescue.- 11. Religious Referent Power and Ethnic Militias in Nigeria: The Imperative for PaxNigeriana

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