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Title: | Oil and Instability: Class Contradictions and the 1983 Coup in Nigeria |
Authors: | Turner, Terisa E. Badru, Pade |
Year: | 1985 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Marxists |
Issue: | 7 |
Period: | March |
Pages: | 4-34 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | coups d'état 1983 class relations Ethnic and Race Relations Politics and Government Economics and Trade Development and Technology Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment |
Abstract: | On December 31st, 1983 the civilian government of Nigeria was toppled by a military coup. This paper considers some of the class contradictions which contributed to circumstances in which the coup was possible. It explains what appears to be chronic instability in Nigeria, defined both in terms of frequent coups and changes of government; but also defined in terms of inability of the state to promote development (the accumulation of capital and the advancement of capitalist relations of production in Nigeria). Contents: introduction - the coup - middlemen and the instability of commercial capitalism - instability and international capital - commerce undermines production - conclusion. Bibliogr. |