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| Title: | Oil-bearing minorities' struggles in Nigeria: towards an alternative constitutional framework |
| Author: | Isumonah, V. Adefemi |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Periodical: | Politeia: Journal for Political Science and Public Administration |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 5-21 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | minority groups constitutional reform petroleum |
| Abstract: | The search for stable inter-ethnic relations among Nigeria's multiple ethnic nations has laid emphasis on sharing of political power. This is illustrated, for example, by the distribution of political and public service offices among elites of various ethnic/spatial origins in the implementation of the federal character principle. The inadequacy of this dominant political approach for the management, if not resolution of the national question, has been exposed by recent expressions of doubt about the Nigerian 'nation' and the moral dilemma posed for resource allocation by the oil-spurred ethno-nationalism in the oil-producing areas of Nigeria. It is against this background that this article explores an alternative/complementary approach of the national question. It transcends the expository analysis of the struggles of the minorities in the oil-producing areas and the response of the military authorities under the Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha to the struggles, by attempting to fashion an alternative constitutional framework for Nigeria. The article begins with the minorities' demands and struggles; seeks to understand them in the language of rights, in particular, the right to self-determination; in the process, reconstructs the concept of self-determination, and consequently formulates an alternative constitutional framework for Nigeria. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |
