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Nigeria’s Development Strategy in Global Perspective

Since the 1860s when Nigeria became part of the world capitalist economy — initially as a result of the commercial activities of British trading companies on the coast of present-day Nigeria and of the later imposition of British imperial control — she has over the years witnessed a qualitative and progressive process of integration into the world system. This notwithstanding, subsequent structural developments particularly in the Nigerian political economy have over the years made the Nigerian state relatively autonomous of external capitalist agents; a development that has put the Nigerian s…