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Title:Classes, Crises and Coup: The Demise of Shangari's Regime
Author:Othman, Shehu
Year:1984
Periodical:African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:83
Issue:333
Period:October
Pages:441-461
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:coups d'état
1983
political economy
Politics and Government
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/722918
Abstract:This article sets forth the demise of President Shehu Shagari's regime (31 December 1983) as one of basically domestic intra- and inter-class conflict, and its relations to the political conditions under which both Nigerian and international capitalism operated. Thus, the analysis takes as its point of departure the Nigerian political economy. It rejects the 'pre-emptive strike' theory, as it does the 'failure of electoral polities' thesis. The concept of social class as used here refers to groups differentiated by unequal access to resources, power and privileges: Politicians, politics and the State - The political economy of the NPN (National Party of Nigeria) - The Kaduna Mafia and the NPN - The crisis of commercial capitalism - The Mafia intervenes - After the Coup. Notes.
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