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This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of
the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in
Nigeria. Nigeria provides a framework for examining the central
paradox in post-colonial nation building projects in Africa - the
tension between majority rule and minority rights. The liberal
democratic model on which most African states were founded at
independence from colonial rule, and to which they continue to
aspire, is founded on majority rule. It is also founded on the
protection of the rights of minority groups to political
participation, social inclusion and economic resources. Maintaining
this tenuous balance between majority rule and minority rights has,
in the decades since independence, become the key national question
in many African countries, perhaps none more so than Nigeria. This
volume explores these issues, focusing on four key themes as they
relate to minority rights in Nigeria: ethnic and religious
identities, nationalism and federalism, political crises and armed
conflicts.
This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of
the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in
Nigeria. Nigeria provides a framework for examining the central
paradox in post-colonial nation building projects in Africa - the
tension between majority rule and minority rights. The liberal
democratic model on which most African states were founded at
independence from colonial rule, and to which they continue to
aspire, is founded on majority rule. It is also founded on the
protection of the rights of minority groups to political
participation, social inclusion and economic resources. Maintaining
this tenuous balance between majority rule and minority rights has,
in the decades since independence, become the key national question
in many African countries, perhaps none more so than Nigeria. This
volume explores these issues, focusing on four key themes as they
relate to minority rights in Nigeria: ethnic and religious
identities, nationalism and federalism, political crises and armed
conflicts.
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