Search results

(1 - 2 of 2)

Title: Last card : can Nigeria survive another political transition?
Creator: Obi, Cyril
Date: 2000-12
Collection: African Journal of Political Science
Description: This article critically examines the depth of the reforms and elections that underpinned Nigeria's recently concluded political transition. 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...
Show moreThis article critically examines the depth of the reforms and elections that underpinned Nigeria's recently concluded political transition. 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 except it transfers real power to the Nigerian people, the current struggles could signpost grave portends for the Nigerian Project.
Show less

Title: Globalization and environmental conflict in Africa
Creator: Obi, Cyril
Date: 1999-06
Collection: African Journal of Political Science
Description: This paper examines the relationship between the processes of globalisation, mineral/resource extraction in Africa, and the deepening of environmental conflicton the continent since the late 1970s, and especially with the onset of structural adjustment which imposed the hegemony of the free market on the African ecology.

MSU Libraries