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Title: | The political and social setting of military government is Nigeria: problems of political instability revisited |
Author: | Ollawa, Patrick E. |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | Genève-Afrique: acta africana |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 6-37 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | military regimes armed forces |
Abstract: | This paper concentrates largely on the role of the Nigerian military in politics since 1966 and is a revised and extended version of an earlier essay written before the attempted coup d'etat of February 13, 1976. Although the data used in this study were collected in June and July, 1975, this article incorporates changes which have taken place in the country up to March, 1976: The situation in Nigeria after the coups of 1966 the creation of new states; the census question, the performance gap) - Explaining the failures of the military regime under General Gowon (the structural weakness of the military, the military normative attachment to order) - The precipitante of the coup d'etat of July 29, 1975 - The short-lived military government of Murtala Muhammed and the coup of February 13, 1976 - Conclusion. Ref. |