The meaning of contraceptive choice and constraint for Hausa women in a northern Nigerian town
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Hausa women residing in the northern Nigerian town of Zaria have a range of traditional and modem contraceptive methods, as well as alternatives such as abortion, available to them for controlling fertility. Whether they actually avail themselves of these options, however, relate…
Letter dated 97/08/15 from the Chargé d'affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council.
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Victory and crisis: introduction
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In recent decades, unmistakable advances have been made in the area of political democracy. During the second half of the 1970s, decisive changes in a democratic direction took place in Spain and in other Mediterranean countries. Authoritarian rule has not, since then, been repre…
The Missing Headlines
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Focusing on major world events and themes, this is a selection of speeches by Chief Emeka Anyaoku, the third Commonwealth Secretary-General and the first African holder of the office. They are mainly from his first period of office (1990-1995), and are grouped in themes such as …
NIGERIA IN TRANSITION
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Keeping Faith with the Fatherland Ibadan University, Nigeria 18 March 1983 Delivering the fifth annual Alumni Lecture at Ibadan University, he speaks of the responsibilities borne by “midnight's children”, the generation of Nigeria's independence on 1 October 1960, and of the pos…
Introduction
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The speeches and other statements in this collection have been selected mainly from the period of my first five years in office as Commonwealth Secretary-General. The purpose of this introductory essay is to present the background to these statements and to provide the common thr…
Ignore Sovietology at Your Peril
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The year 1997 not only marks the fifth anniversary of the publication of Demokratizatsiya but also the fifth anniversary of Yeltsin's economic reforms. Shock therapy, as it was often called, was designed in part with advice from several Western economic theorists who specialized…
Monetary institutions in newly independent countries: the experience of Malaya, Ghana and Nigeria in the 1950s
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Cameroon and the Commonwealth of nations
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When Cameroon joined the Commonwealth in November 1995, it became the first Commonwealth national also to belong to the Francophonie. A bilingual product of three‐way colonial competition in the last century, the country is composed of the major part of the territories held by Ge…
Nigeria
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War without End and an End to a War: The Prolonged Wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone
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An attack on Liberian government forces in Nimba County, Liberia, on Christmas Eve, 1989, ignited a full-scale civil war. It was carried out by the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) and consisted of Libyan-trained dissidents, headed by Charles Taylor, a former employee o…
Green Globe Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development 1997, edited by Helge Ole Bergesen and Georg Parmann. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Reviewed by David Frossard
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Robertson's article, comparing the strong commercial tradition of Ga women in the Ghanaian capital of Accra with the more crisis-driven trade activity among the Kikuya of Kenya, is particularly sophisticated.She argues that the "comparative advantage" of the former lies in the fa…
Writers in Politics
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This book reflects many of the concerns found in Decolonising the Mind and Moving the Centre . Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old title, rewriting most of the pieces that appeared in the original 1981 edition, and adding completely new essays, such as 'Freedom o…
After the Cold War
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The end of the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union reassured people around the world who had lived in fear of a nuclear confrontation between the superpowers. Yet the early euphoria over "peace dividends" and a "new world order" was premature. Conflicts…
Organized Labor and the Struggle for Democracy in Nigeria
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The literature on the on-going transitions in Africa has largely ignored trade unions and workers, women, even the prodemocracy movements. Of course, they are mentioned in passing or used in examples. But there has been a dearth of detailed case studies of the role of these popul…
Human Rights: Group Defamation, Freedom of Expression and the Law of Nations
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In his book Human Rights: Group Defamation, Freedom of Expression and the Law of Nations, Thomas David Jones presents a discussion and analysis of the laws governing group defamation and speech inciteful of racial hatred in Great Britain, Canada, India, Nigeria, and the United St…
International Law in the Nigerian Legal System
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SYSTEM 313 towards other nations, one must not be ignorant of the laws through which that nation gives expression to its sense of justice and regulates its structure.2 Furthermore, one must bear in mind that each system of law has different concepts through which its law is expre…
Rights in Real Security and Creditors protection in Nigeria
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Environmental Pollution, dispute resolution and access to justice in Nigeria: Which way forward?
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A Review of Ogundere, J. G., "The Nigerian Judge and His Court"
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