A Roadmap for Understanding African Politics: Leadership and Political Integration in Nigeria Contributor(s): Okafor, Victor Oguejiofor (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415805775 ISBN-13: 9780415805773 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $59.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - General |
Dewey: 320.96 |
Series: African Studies |
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 264 pages |
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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. |