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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. |