A mobile idea of space. Traders, patrons and the cross‐border economy in Sahelian Africa
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In the Sahel, the borders still offer suitably fertile ground for informal commerce to bloom. In that context, this article postulates that contemporary cross‐border economic activity illustrates one of the foundations of what some geographers called mobile space, i.e. that circu…
The Political Economy of Nigeria's Post-military Elections, 1999–2007
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This article is a structural and empirical analysis of the interface between the economics and the politics of elections in post-military Nigeria. Structures and strictures of contemporary economic globalisation and market reforms have weakened nationalistic fractions of the stat…
NIGERIA: Bauchi Clashes
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The dialectic of police reform in Nigeria
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An assessment of the status of Local Agenda 21 in Nigeria using Ondo states as a case study
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A Big Man in a Small Cell: Charles Taylor and the Special Court for Sierra Leone
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On March 29, 2006, a United Nations (UN) helicopter carrying former Liberian president Charles Taylor flew over Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, and landed in the fortified compound of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Special Court). Cheering crowds flowed into the streets ar…
A legal perspective on reproductive health and gender-specific human rights in Nigeria
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This paper looks at international provisions on reproductive rights and the obligations and duties to protect reproductive health of women in Nigeria. The concept of human rights is very fundamental to society and is based on international instruments signed and ratified by sover…
International
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The co-leaders for the 2009 APSA Africa Workshop (Accra, Ghana, June 21–July 11) were officially selected by the Project Steering Committee after an open and competitive process that concluded in January. The U.S.-based leaders of the workshop will be Dr. Dan Smith (University of…
Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films
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The rapidly changing pattern of transnational communication and the subsequent emergence of the new media and information revolution are often assumed to have a powerful impact on identities and cultures worldwide; but there is little agreement about how information flows actuall…
15 Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films
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The Telesis of Nigerian Nomadic Education
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The nomadic education program in Nigeria is 20 years old and its central concern has been the promotion of access to education for nomads in the country. This chapter critically examines the implementation of nomadic education in the context of its avowed goal of promoting equali…
Themes and Theories: Selected Essays, Speeches and Writings in International Law
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE Introductory Chapter PART 1: INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY 1. Policy Considerations and the International Judicial Process 2. Policy and Impartiality: The Uneasy Relationship in International Law 3. The UN and Lawmaking: The Political Organs 4. Conceptual Thi…
N igeria, 1993 Political and Electoral Protest and Conflict
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Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa. Endowed with human and natural resources, it is also the continent's oldest federal polity and has great ethnic, religious, class, and linguistic diversity. Nigeria experienced one of the most popular pro‐democracy revolts in the his…
Ife–Modakeke Conflict
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The Ife and Modakeke are both Yoruba of Osun state in southwestern Nigeria. According to local ancestral myth, both are descendants of Oduduwa, the perceived progenitor of the Yoruba people. The sociocultural and political systems of the two communities are essentially identical…
N igeria, Separatist Agitation, Contemporary
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Nigeria gained independence from British colonial domination on October 1, 1960 as a fusion of well over 250 ethnic nationalities. Intense competition for political power among postcolonial leaders has given rise to stiff divisions and suspicion among various nationalities, ethni…
A pedagogy of hope : Stellenbosch University's vision for higher education and sustainable development
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This paper is a revised version of a lecture by Prof H. Russel Botman delivered at the India International Centre, New Delhi on 20 January 2009 and subsequently published by the Centre as Occasional Publication No. 6. The revised paper was delivered at the 12th General Conference…
A Good Investment: United States and Nigeria Security Cooperation
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Abstract : The United States and Nigeria share common objectives based on security and resources. Theater security cooperation efforts between the nations ensures a stable and secure Nigeria, assists access to resources for the U.S., and facilitates U.S. presence in western Afric…
Nigeria
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Islamic Sharia at the Crossroads: Human Rights Challenges and the Strategic Translation of Vernacular Imaginaries
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SAFIYA HUSSAINI AND AMINA LAWAL Safiya, as she has been popularly called, was an unemployed and divorced thirty-year-old Muslim mother of four when she was sentenced to death on October 9, 2001, by a Sharia court in Gwadabawa, Sokoto State, in northern Nigeria. She had been found…
“The Hand Will Go to Hell”: Islamic Law and the Crafting of the Spiritual Self
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SHARIA-IZATION IN NIGERIA, POST-1999 I conducted research in the Nigerian north during the summer months of 2002–5, a turbulent period of both excitement and anxiety about the successful reestablishment of the Sharia code. Of the range of stories I documented, four concerned the…
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