| A Roadmap for Understanding African Politics: Leadership and Political Integration in Nigeria Contributor(s): Okafor, Victor Oguejiofor (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415981069 ISBN-13: 9780415981064 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2006 Annotation: The world is watching to see whether Nigeria will succeed in its current third experiment with representative democracy, which was launched in 1999. This book examines the impact of post-colonial political leadership on political integration in Nigeria. After reviewing Nigeria's pre-colonial and colonial political histories, the book discusses how those histories, along with contemporary external forces like neo-colonialism as well as internal social, economic and political structures and developments have affected emerging post-independence politics in that country. The study climaxes with an Afro centric/Africa-centered theory of political and integrative leadership and then uses it as a prism for analyzing six Nigerian post-independence political leaderships, encompassing Nigeria's First and Second Republics, along with their military interregna. The concluding chapter includes a discussion of the implications of the study for leadership and political integration in Africa in general. This book offers an in-depth understanding of the historical and contemporary forces that shape the ebb and flow of Nigeria's national politics as well as African politics more generally. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - General |
| Dewey: 320.966 |
| LCCN: 2006013367 |
| Series: African Studies (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.32" W x 9.28" (1.10 lbs) 276 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines the impact of post-colonial leadership on political integration in Nigeria, offering an in-depth understanding of the historical and contemporary forces that shape Nigeria's national politics as well as African politics generally. Okafor discusses how Nigeria's pre-colonial and colonial political histories along with contemporary external forces like neo-colonialism, as well as internal social, economic and political structures and developments, have affected emerging post-independence politics in the country. The study climaxes with an Africa-centered theory of political and integrative leadership and then uses it as a prism for analyzing six Nigerian post-independence political leaderships, encompassing Nigeria's First and Second Republics, along with their military interregna. The concluding chapter includes a discussion of the implications of the study for leadership and political integration in Africa in general. |