From "Authoritarian Rule" to "Democracy" in Nigeria: Citizens' Welfare a Myth or Reality
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What does democracy do or fail to do about the welfare of Nigerians? Does it matter for the performance of democracy? This paper seeks to determine the mutual impact of democracy and welfare of citizens in Nigeria. Given the state of democracy and available data, it seems that po…
Learning, Gnosis and Exegesis: Public tafsīr and Sufi Revival in the City of Kano (Northern Nigeria), 1950-1970
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Of all scientific theories the theory of evolution arguably poses the greatest challenge to theistic religions because it threatens to undermine teleology and the central position of mankind in nature. Nevertheless, modernist thinkers among South Asian Muslims like Sayyid Aḥmad K…
Rewriting Nigerian Federal Constitution: A Prescriptive Argument for a Self-Sustaining Arrangement
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What is required for Nigeria's federal constitutional arrangement to be stable and self-sustaining? This article answers this question by drawing on the classical and contemporary theories of federalism that explain the ways in which federalism survives. It combines these classic…
Fiscal Federalism, Subnational Governance and MDGs in Nigeria
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Globalization and Separatism: The Influence of Internal and External Interdependence on the Strategies of Separatism
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The existence of economic globalization introduces a paradox: secession cannot produce full autonomy in economic matters because states with smaller economies tend to have less policy autonomy. This chapter takes a novel approach to the question of how security and economic facto…
Conflict, identity, and reform in the Muslim world : challenges for U.S. engagement
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Contents Preface - Abiodun Williams Introduction - Daniel Brumberg and Dina Shehata Part I: The Grand Debate: Islamic Renewal or Political Reform? American Foreign Policy and Islamic Renewal - Abdeslam M. Maghraoui Religion in World Affairs: Its Role in Conflict and Peace - David…
Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo World: History, Society, and Atlantic Diaspora Connections (review)
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Olaudah and the Igbo World comprises seventeen essays of wide-ranging quality by nonacademic and academic authors from various disciplines. core essays are based on papers given at 2007 conference on Olaudah in Nigeria. collection needs to be approached with great care because it…
Facilitating Better Governance Through E-Government Initiatives: Successful Cases in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Corrupt political elites in the developing world, working hand-in-hand with greedy business people and unscrupulous investors, are putting private gain before the welfare of citizens and the economic development of their countries,”[CNN, 2003]. National governments in sub-Saharan…
Nigeria and the Struggle for the Liberation of South Africa
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Since Nigeria’s independence in 1960, Africa has been the centerpiece of its foreign policy. In terms of policy, this involved the total liberation of Africa from colonial domination, racial discrimination, and apartheid system. Colonization remained longer in Southern Africa tha…
Alberico Gentili and the Criticism of Expansion in the Roman Empire. The Invader's Remorse
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Journal of the History of International Law Revue d’histoire du droit international Volume 11, Number 2, 2009 Articles Kaius Tuori Alberico Gentili and the Criticism of Expansion in the Roman Empire. The Invader’s Remorse 205 Pablo Zapatero Legal Imagination in Vitoria. The Power…
Towards market-oriented entrepreneurial university management for Nigerian universities
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Nigeria: Ethnischer Föderalismus als Patronage
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Auch im zehnten Band des Jahrbuchs des Föderalismus befassen sich die Beiträge mit verschiedenen Aspekten der Territorialstruktur im heutigen Europa. Einen Schwerpunkt bildet dabei die Würdigung ausgewählter Aspekte des deutschen Föderalismus anlässlich des 60-jährigen Bestehens…
Intertextuality and West African Arabic Poetry: Reading Nigerian Arabic Poetry of the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Abstract Nigerian Arabic poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries deliberately intertexts with and alludes to classical Arabic poetry, the foundational texts of Islam, the religious poetry of the first century of Islam and with Arabian poetry in general. Arabic poets of West Africa…
Federal balancing in Nigeria: a paradigm for sustainable democracy
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The cry for marginalization in Nigeria is a common phenomenon. Practically every section of the Nigerian nation is accusing the others of marginalization. This paper does not aim at ascertaining who actually is marginalizing whom but tries to proffer solution to this cry so as to…
Sub-National Determinants of Non-State Conflicts in Nigeria, 1991-2006
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Existing literature on non-state conflict tends to either focus on issues of resource scarcity or on ethnic/religious divisions. Largely overlooked in the empirical literature is the issue of how go ...
Judicial review of the impeachment procedure in Nigeria
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Nigeria has a presidential system of government with the President and the Vice-President heading the government at the Federal level while Governors and Deputy Governors head their respective States Governments. The 1999 Nigerian Constitution provides that no civil or criminal p…
Religious Space in the Nigerian Public Sphere: Its Burdens and Prospects
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It is sociological truism that public sphere discourse is multidimensional and multidisciplinary in content and context 1 . Relating it to Governance in Africa to which, it is closely knitted, we notice that more often than not an average political scientist across the globe does…
Cultural Pluralism and the Quest for an Enduring Political System in Nigeria
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Since the attainment of political independence, one of the greatest challenges of nationbuilding facing the multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural developing countries of Africa has been that of evolving viable and enduring political systems. Nigeria, lik…
Nigeria : higher education and the challenge of access
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State power, autarchy, and political conquest in Nigerian federalism
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Chapter 1 Contents Chapter 2 Figures Chapter 3 Tables Chapter 4 Acronyms Chapter 5 Political Map of Nigeria Chapter 6 Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 7 1. Introduction: A Prolegomenon on State and Governance Chapter 8 2. Analytical Frameworks of State Formation Chapter 9 3. H…
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