Travails of Truth: Achieving Justice for Victims of Impunity in Nigeria
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Following its transition to democracy from an authoritarian military rule marked by gross violations of human rights, Nigeria established the Human Rights Violations Investigations Commission (HRVIC) in 1999. This paper critically examines the contributions of the HRVIC, popularl…
Ethnic tension and resurgence of disintegration : social-political study of Nigeria
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Only abstract. Paper copies of master’s theses are listed in the Helka database (http://www.helsinki.fi/helka). Electronic copies of master’s theses are either available as open access or only on thesis terminals in the Helsinki University Library.
Liberty demanded: The combinative nature of the Nigerian press in a dominant military world 1985-1997
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Fundamental Human Rights under the Nigerian Constitution: Right or Wrong?
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It is almost tempting to apologise for returning to the subject of human rights, but the temptation ought to be resisted. The question of the recognition and protection of Human rights, a perennial, worldwide problem since the immediate aftermath of the Second World War in partic…
Islam and Colonialism: Intellectual Responses of Muslims of Northern Nigeria to British Colonial Rule * BY MUHAMMAD S. UMAR.
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This is one of the most important books to have been written on Muslims living in colonial northern Nigeria. It analyses, in the main very sympathetically, how some of the elite—emirs, judges, ulema and the Western-educated—all came to justify in their writings their living and w…
Learning from the Tiv: Why a Sustainable Economy Would Have to Be "Multicentric"
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Although careful not to romanticize the premodern cultures that have traditionally been the central object of their research, anthropologists might reconsider some classical ethnography in the light of ongoing deliberations on sustainability. Economic anthropology is in a unique…
The Episcopal Church in Virginia, 1607-2007
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African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam
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Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam. By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 199. $65.00 / £42.50 cloth. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im's latest book builds on his earlier work on Shari'a and human rights, this time contextualized…
A brief review of 2007 Nigerian presidential election
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NIGERIA: Electoral Reform Panel
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West African Regional Security: Conflict Management, Integration and Collective Security
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Following the recent trends in world politics, the need to think beyond the state has become inevitable. From the end of colonialism in West Africa to the advent of globalisation, the nations in that region have continued to face similar problems and have not made any significant…
The Practice of Fiscal Federalism: Comparative Perspectives
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Leading scholars and practitioners examine constitutional design and taxing, spending, and regulatory responsibilities at the federal, state/provincial, and local/municipal levels in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switze…
Artificial creation of the state and enduring conflicts in Africa: Legacies of the 'Indirect rule' policy in the northern parts of Ghana and Nigeria
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List of Contributors
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Citation (2005), "List of Contributors", Allen, W.R., Bonous-Hammarth, M., Teranishi, R.T. and Dano, O.C. (Ed.) Higher Education in a Global Society: Achieving Diversity, Equity and Excellence (Advances in Education in Diverse Communities, Vol. 5), Emerald Group Publishing Limite…
Subject Index
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Citation (2005), "Subject Index", Allen, W.R., Bonous-Hammarth, M., Teranishi, R.T. and Dano, O.C. (Ed.) Higher Education in a Global Society: Achieving Diversity, Equity and Excellence (Advances in Education in Diverse Communities, Vol. 5), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bing…
An international symposium on investigative journalism
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Keywords K E Y W O R D S, agenda setting, China, democratization, guerilla reporting methods, investigative journalism, media commercialization, media liberalization, news sources, Nigeria, sensationalism, Slovenia, sub-Saharan Africa, Sweden, undercover investigation, undergroun…
Disturbing the Peace: Cultural Narratives and Reparations
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Reflections
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What a surprise and a delight to receive the James Cretsos Leadership Award and to share it with my wonderful colleague, Caryn Anderson! This award is really a tribute to the wonderful teamwork spirit of the Special Interest Group/International Issues in Information (SIG/III), wh…
Constitutionalism in divided societies
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How should political communities respond to the opportunities and challenges raised by ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural differences, and, through these responses, thereby promote democracy, social justice, peace, and stability? This is one of the most difficult and imp…
Vote buying in Nigeria : an assessment of the 2007 general elections
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Nigeria's electoral process has been confronted with daunting and enormous challenges which bedevil the conduct of elections considered free, fair and acceptable both within the country and internationally. But a more crucial problem in Nigeria's electoral system is that of vote…
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