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Nigeria and the Politics of Survival As a Nation-State

This volume addresses the struggles and strategies applied by the civilian and military administrations to resolve the issue of political instability in Nigeria. It examines its political history as an entity before Britain colonized the area, and the constitutional developments since 1914 when Britain amalgamated the northern and southern regions to form modern Nigeria. In over three decades the government has changed from civilian to military twice. It has experimented with the Westminister model and the American presidential system, both have not worked, and the military has been in power f…