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To borrow a hackneyed phrase, Nigeria has had a chequered political history before and since independence from British colonial rule on October 1, 1960. Two sets of actors - the civilian politicians and the military politicians - have been on the national political stage since January 15, 1966. General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida was one of them. In his eight years in power as president, or perhaps more correctly as military president, he affec...

To borrow a hackneyed phrase, Nigeria has had a chequered political history before and since independence from British colonial rule on October 1, 1960. Two sets of actors - the civilian politicians and the military politicians - have been on the national political stage since January 15, 1966. General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida was one of them. In his eight years in power as president, or perhaps more correctly as military president, he affec...

Contemporary Uganda and other East African states are connected by the experience of Idi Amin's tyranny, rapacious and murderous regime, and the latter second Uganda Peoples Congress government, that forced Ugandans to go into exile and initiate armed struggles from Kenya and Tanzania to oust his government. Because of these experiences of disappearances, torture, murder and war, issues of identity, politics and resistance are significant conc...

Dr. Eno, through his thought provoking and candid poems, opens a wound that many Kenya scholars must rise up and heal. The book is a mastery of the true character of African leaders who, supported by our scholars, plunder our national resources. It is also written in an African setting depicting situations such as happening in Somalia. It should be a must buy for our politicians and scholars who, when close to power, become so disconnected fro...

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In this compendium of essays, Dr Jideofor Adibe discusses the issues around which contestations for state power and Nigeria's quest for development revolve and also interrogates the various desiderata for resolving those issues. The essays, mostly from the author's weekly column in two of the leading newspapers in Nigeria, also cover issues of 'societal beliefs' such as policemen arresting and detaining a goat on the assumption that the goat w...

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Ubuntu: Journal of Conflict Transformation is a biannual Journal of the Conflict Transformation and Peace Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Topics in this issue include: •Towards Deepening Conflict Transformation and Peace-building. •Footsteps in History, Colonial Origins of African Conflicts: an insight from the Nigeria/Cameroon Border Conflict. •How African Civil Wars Hibernate: The Warring Communitie...

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Dictatorship, contrary to the general belief, is not an African invention. The history of this practice dates back to the Roman Empire where the "extraordinary magistrate" and the "ordinary magistrate" wielded uncontrolled power in society. Sadly, post-colonial Africa is replete with examples of African leaders who subsequently adopted the dictatorial approach to governance after independence, almost becoming law unto themselves. Consequently,...

Civil conflicts in Africa range from few interstate wars to several intrastate conflicts characterized by secessionist movements, irredentism, coups and counter coups, genocide, wars of liberation to resource-based wars. The varied causes of conflicts in the continent's diverse and complex social formations are seen in ethnic terms and include struggles for economic/environmental resources, poor institutions of governance and issues of identit...

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Nigerians love to debate. Even under colonial rule, the authorities realised that Nigerians could not be repressed and that they always expressed their views on topical issues of development. The topical issues that have driven Nigeria's political economy include Constitution and Constitutionalism, Democracy, the National Question, Civil-Military Relations, Federalism, State and Nation-Building, Local Governance, Leadership, the Role of Tradit...

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This booklet summarises the policy positions of Atiku Abubakar, who is aspiring to become President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, under the PDP. The premise of Atiku's policy proposal is that the resources of the Federal Government will be most effectively utilised if they are deployed on a few priority areas such as infrastructure development, job creation, and provision of adequate security, effective resolution of the Niger Delta prob...

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Ali Mazrui has been described as one of the most original thinkers that Africa has produced, and one of the top 100 living public intellectuals in the world today. This volume uses Mazrui's life and work as a guide towards explaining the historical impact of black public intellectuals such as Julius K. Nyerere, Patrice Lumumba and Barrack Obama. The book explores not only politics and academics, but also religion, gender, class and civil-milit...

The Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 (also known as the Biafran War) has been described as a 'forgotten war'. Yet it led to the birth of the NGO Doctors without Borders / Médecins sans frontières and equipped journalists with the intercultural skills they later used in their coverage of other African conflicts. The Biafran conflict equally ended up strengthening the special relationship between France and Nigeria. From 1970 in particular, the Nig...