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Federalism in Africa: The Nigerian Experience in Comparative Perspective

Although it is often portrayed in global terms as a dysfunctional and failed state, oil-rich Nigeria in the comparative African context has been relatively successful in overcoming and containing the syndrome of state disintegration and large-scale internal disorder that has afflicted some of the continent's other large multiethnic states, including the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. Nigeria's relative stability derives significantly from its unique federal structure, which has been reconfigured since the 1967–1970 civil war from an unstable union of three unwieldy ethnic regions into…