Nigeria at Fifty - The Nation in Narration (Paperback)

Nigeria, Africa's most populous and biggest democracy, celebrates her fiftieth year as an independent nation in October 2010. As the cliche states, 'As Nigeria goes, so goes Africa'. This book frames the socio-historical and political trajectory of Nigeria while examining the many dimensions of the critical choices that she has made as an independent nation. How does the social composition of interest and power illuminate the actualities and narratives of the Nigerian crisis? How have the choices made by Nigerian leaders structured, and/or have been structured by, the character of the Nigerian state and state-society relations? In what ways is Nigeria's mono-product, debt-ridden, dependent economy fed by 'the politics of plunder'? And what are the implications of these questions for the structural relationships of production, reproduction and consumption? This book confronts these questions by making state-centric approaches to understanding African countries speak to relevant social theories that pluralize and complicate our understanding of the specific challenges of a prototypical postcolonial state. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	2011
Editors:	Ebenezer Obadare • Wale Adebanwi
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-82887-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Political leaders & leadership Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Energy industries & utilities > Petroleum & oil industries
LSN:	0-415-82887-2
Barcode:	9780415828871

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