Security concerns: Nigeria's peacekeeping efforts in Liberia and Sierra Leone, 1990-1999
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The essence of this thesis is to explore the role of Nigeria, West Africa's hegemon, in the intervention efforts by the Economic Community of West African states (ECOWAS) through its Cease-fire Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) in both Liberia (1990-1997) and Sierra Leone (1993-2000). Wh…
Truth and reconciliation processes and civil-military relations: a qualitative exploration
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This work narrates a qualitative sociological exploration with auto-ethnographic underpinnings. It deals with the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (SATRC) as a contextual case among others. The thesis seeks to answer the question of whether countries following a…
Análisis del conflicto social en Sudán y de la búsqueda de la paz, tras las negociaciones de 2005 a 2006. Caso de estudio : Darfur
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Analizar el origen de la tragedia de Darfur y de la influencia de los diversos actores (los grupos armados del Movimiento de Liberacion de Sudan (MLS) y el Moviemiento de Justicia e Igualdad (MJI),Gobierno y los Janjaweed).Adicionalmente se pretende analizar los diferentes acuerd…
NIGERIA: Rebels Declare Ceasefire
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Environmental Narratives and the History of Soil Erosion in Kondoa District, Tanzania: An Archaeological Perspective*
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Introduction Archaeologists have often argued that two of the greatest strengths of their discipline are its temporal depth and its interdisciplinary nature. Historians of Africa have also endorsed this, most notably perhaps Jan Vansina, in his review of archaeology's relationshi…
Derogations and restrictions on the right to strike under international law: the case of Nigeria
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This paper explores a neglected aspect of legislative reform, derogations and restrictions on the exercise of the right to strike in Nigeria. It draws on the international labour standards established by the International Labour Organisation to assess the derogations and restrict…
Decentralization and public service delivery in Nigeria
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Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. The 2006 provisional census counted over 140 million people (United Nations 2007), 64 percent of whom live in rural areas. These rural areas are undergoing radical, noticeable change, particularly in the agricultural sector. The agr…
Commonwealth Update
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Nigerian security forces put down an Islamist uprising by militants of Boko Haram that left 700 people dead. The leader of the Pakistan Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed in a US missile strike and Islamist militants were pushed out of the Swat valley after weeks of fighting.…
Nigeria
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Ending Impunity in Africa: The Charles Taylor Trial at the Special Court for Sierra Leone
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INTRODUCTION At this time, Charles Ghankay Taylor, (1) the former President of Liberia, awaits trial at The Hague, Netherlands, by The Special Court For Sierra (2) [Special Court] The trial is provisionally set to start on April 2, 2007. Mr. Taylor was indicted on March 7, 2003,…
Nigeria: Abdul‐Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi
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Retrospective Conversion of Arabic Collections at a Nigerian University Library
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Is the World Our Campus? International Students and U.S. Global Power in the LongTwentieth Century*
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It was 1951 and Rozella Switzer, postmistress of McPherson, Kansas, a prosperous, conservative, nearly all white oil town of 9,000 people on the eastern edge of the wheat belt, had not seen the Nigerians coming. That fall, seven African students, all male, in their early and mid…
Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo World: History, Society, and Atlantic Diaspora Connections, ed. Chima J. Korieh
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Reviewed by: Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo World: History, Society, and Atlantic Diaspora Connections Vincent Carretta Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo World: History, Society, and Atlantic Diaspora Connections Chima J. Korieh, Ed. Trenton, NJ: Africa World P, 2009. xiv + 407 pp. ISBN…
The Impact of Rural Political Economy on Gender Relations in Islamizing Hausaland, Nigeria
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This article departs from general anthropological debates about the nature of gender to focus more narrowly on the impact of political economy and religion on gender relations. It explores the dialectic between commodification, Islamic conversion and gender relations in the Hausa…
Identity, Diversity, and Constitutionalism in Africa (review)
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Reviewed by: Identity, Diversity, and Constitutionalism in Africa Pauline H. Baker (bio) Francis M. Deng, Identity, Diversity, and Constitutionalism in Africa (U.S. Inst. of Peace Press 2008) 269 pages, ISBN 1601270356. Francis M. Deng, currently the UN Secretary-General’s Specia…
Urfan Khaliq. Ethical Dimensions of the Foreign Policy of the European Union. A Legal Appraisal
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It is a perennial question what role law has to play in the conduct of foreign policy. Urfan Khaliq asks this question for the European Union (EU). The starting point of his analysis is the commitment of the EU to a certain set of ‘ethical values’, namely the promotion of human r…
Toward Understanding Nigerian Negotiating Style
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NIGERIA: Most MEND Leaders Accept Amnesty
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Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance
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The 3rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV2009, was organized in Bogota, Colombia during 10-13 November 2009. The conference took place under the patronage of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Government of Col…
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