Democratization in Late Twentieth-Century Africa: Coping with Uncertainty
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Preface Introduction: Understanding Democratization by Jean-Germain Gros Democratization in Malawi: Its Roots and Prospects by Sam A. Mchombo Cameroon: A Flawed Transition to Democracy by Tatah Mentan Nigeria: Militarization and Perpetual Transition by Julius O. Ihonvbere Democra…
Autocracy, Violence, and Ethnomilitary Rule in Nigeria
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This revised version of a paper presented at a conference at M.I.T. on State, Conflict, and Democracy in 1997 pulled together key dimensions of a Nigeria that had drifted far from constitutional and democratic governance. State and society had become increasingly criminalized; th…
Democratic Transition in Nigeria: Will the Military Stay Out of Politics?
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Extraterritorial Shrimps, NGOs and the WTO Appellate Body
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At the centre of the international trading order, under the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO), lies a dispute-settlement system. This system offers a graduated conflict-resolution mechanism that begins with a consultation process; progresses to adjudication, through…
Democrazy—Dem Go Craze, O: Monitoring the 1999 Nigerian Elections
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In many respects, the least important part of the 1999 elections were the elections themselves. From the beginning of General Abdusalam Abubakar’s transition program in mid-1998, most Nigerians who were not part of the wealthy “political class” of elites—which is to say, most Nig…
Political Transition, Ethnoregionalism, and the “Power Shift” Debate in Nigeria
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The Nigerian military has been engaged in a program of transition to democratic rule since 1985. The country’s military rulers developed “transition politics” into a strategy of transitions without end, a ruse to prevent democratization. Hopefully, Nigeria is now at the crossroad…
Democrazy—Dem Go Craze , O: Monitoring the 1999 Nigerian Elections
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In many respects, the least important part of the 1999 elections were the elections themselves. From the beginning of General Abdusalam Abubakar’s transition program in mid-1998, most Nigerians who were not part of the wealthy “political class” of elites—which is to say, most Nig…
Ethiopian Islam and the Challenge of Diversity
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A perennial issue in the comparative study of Islam is how, as a faith and a way of life, it deals with diversity: religious, ethnic, or socio-cultural. This issue is all the more relevant in a world where globalizing discourses redefine traditional identities, including those of…
The 'Persistent' Federation: Nigeria and Its Federal Future
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At the Azikiwe memorial conference held at Lincoln University near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in late April 1998, a longstanding observer of Nigerian politics pointedly informed the Nigerian ambassador to the United States that the so-called Federal Republic of Nigeria was in fac…
The West and Elections in Nigeria
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The end of the cold war has made democratization, and its barest essential component elections, imperative for all nondemocratic forms of government. This is to be expected, given the dismal failure of the socialist alternative even in the first socialist country, the former Sovi…
The West and Elections in Nigeria
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The end of the cold war has made democratization, and its barest essential component elections, imperative for all nondemocratic forms of government. This is to be expected, given the dismal failure of the socialist alternative even in the first socialist country, the former Sovi…
Quagmire in West Africa: Nigerian Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone (1997-98)
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Military Hegemony and the Transition Program
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This article cautions that the democratization process in Nigeria is not a foregone conclusion. Given the nature of the competing interests within Nigeria’s military hierarchy, there is nothing to suggest that every officer within the ruling military elite has embraced this trans…
Entrenched Military Interests and the Future of Democracy in Nigeria
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Transfrontier Regionalism. The Revival of Regional Integration in Africa
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The views and perspectives adopted by A.I. Asiwaju and D. Bach appear sufficiently distinct, yet they converge on several key issues: i.e., the informal achievement of regionalization in Africa through kinship and other non-state networks; the resistance of Africans to boundaries…
Democratic Governance and Sustainable Peace and Stability in Nigeria
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Nigeria, like many other African countries, has been in the firm grip of military dictatorship for many years; in this case for 30 out of 38 years of independence. The military took over power ostensibly to check the disintegrative tendencies in the country soon after independenc…
Military Hegemony and the Transition Program
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This article cautions that the democratization process in Nigeria is not a foregone conclusion. Given the nature of the competing interests within Nigeria’s military hierarchy, there is nothing to suggest that every officer within the ruling military elite has embraced this trans…
The Constitutionality of State and Local "Sanctions" Against Foreign Countries: Affairs of State, States' Affairs, or a Sorry State of Affairs?
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Since the mid-1990s, many state and local governments have enacted a host of laws barring local governments' procurement of goods and services from persons doing business with certain pariah governments, including Burma (Myanmar), the People's Republic of China, Cuba, Nigeria and…
The “Persistent” Federation: Nigeria and its Federal Future
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At the Azikiwe memorial conference held at Lincoln University near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in late April 1998, a longstanding observer of Nigerian politics pointedly informed the Nigerian ambassador to the United States that the so-called Federal Republic of Nigeria was in fac…
Democrazy—Dem Go Craze, O: Monitoring the 1999 Nigerian Elections
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In many respects, the least important part of the 1999 elections were the elections themselves. From the beginning of General Abdusalam Abubakar’s transition program in mid-1998, most Nigerians who were not part of the wealthy “political class” of elites—which is to say, most Nig…
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