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Title: | Last Card: Can Nigeria Survive another Political Transition? |
Author: | Obi, Cyril I. |
Year: | 2000 |
Periodical: | African Journal of Political Science (ISSN 1027-0353) |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 67-86 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Nigeria West Africa |
Subjects: | democracy political change democratization Politics and Government politics Political development Military government ethnic conflicts Political reform |
External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/ajps/96/OBJ/download |
Abstract: | This article critically examines the depth of the reforms and elections that underpinned Nigeria's political transition of 1999 against the background of earlier transitions. It also analyses the important challenges confronting democratic consolidation in the face of the 'imperfect' nature of the political transition, revolutionary pressures from below and factional struggles within the hegemonic elite - all of which have direct implications for the social contract and the national question. At the end it is argued that this transition is Nigeria's last chance - and unless it transfers real power to the Nigerian people, the current struggles could signpost grave portends for the Nigerian Project. Bibliogr., note, sum. [Journal abstract] |