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Title: Culture and resistance : festival programme
Creator: Mnyele, Thami, 1948-1985
Date: 1982
Collection: Africana Posters Collection
Description: Silkscreen poster shows logo for the Culture and Resistance symposium and festival. Ink is black and red. Subtitle is written in red marker next to the logo. The symposium program and a schedule of events are taped below title and subtitle. Ink on both is in black.

Title: Defend SAAWU : an injury to one is an injury to all
Creator: MEDU Art Ensemble (Gaborone, Botswana)
Date: 1983/1984
Collection: Africana Posters Collection
Description: Silkscreen poster shows three men. Two have their fists raised. The other one appears to have a bandage around his head. Title and image is in black and the subtitle is in white. Ink fades from brownish black to black from top to bottom.

Title: Defend SAAWU : an injury to one is an injury to all
Creator: MEDU Art Ensemble (Gaborone, Botswana)
Date: 1983/1984
Collection: Africana Posters Collection
Description: Silkscreen poster shows three men. Two have their fists raised. The other one appears to have a bandage around his head. Title and image is in black and the subtitle is in white. Ink fades from black to brownish black from top to bottom.

Title: Join us not them : end conscription
Creator: MEDU Art Ensemble (Gaborone, Botswana)
Date: 1983/1985?
Collection: Africana Posters Collection
Description: Silkscreen poster shows a group of people on one side and soldiers on the other. Buildings and trees are in the background. Title on top and subtitle on bottom. All ink is black.

Title: J. Seidman, graphic work
Creator: Seidman, Judy
Date: 1984
Collection: Africana Posters Collection
Description: Silkscreen poster shows drawing of pianist Nellie Mokatle during a performance in Gaborone. Background is black with text in white. Image is black and white. Center of poster has red ink. Dot of red ink in lower left corner. "Poster for exhibition of Graphic Work by Judy Seidman at the Gaborone National Museum in 1984; drawing of pianist Nellie Mokatle during performance in Gaborone."

Title: A woman's place is in the struggle
Creator: MEDU Art Ensemble (Gaborone, Botswana)
Date: 1979/1985?
Collection: Africana Posters Collection
Description: Silkscreen poster shows two women holding large signs with SACTU demands listed on them. One woman has her fist raised. Title of poster is in white with background in blue. Women and signs in blue and black ink.

Title: American Sod Producers Association Midwinter Conference Proceedings. (1981)
Creator: American Sod Producers Association. Midwinter Conference (1981 : Tahoe, Lake, Calif. and Nev.)
Date: 1981
Collection: American Sod Producers Association Midwinter Conference Proceedings

Title: American Sod Producers Association Midwinter Conference Proceedings. (1982)
Creator: American Sod Producers Association. Midwinter Conference (1982 : Maui, Hawaii)
Date: 1982
Collection: American Sod Producers Association Midwinter Conference Proceedings

Title: The transition and the media
Creator: Olukotun, Ayo
Date: 2000-12
Collection: African Journal of Political Science
Description: This essay examines the role which the Nigerian media played in the transition from military rule to elected civilian government. It observes that the immediate political context of the transition was a post-Abacha liberalizing military administration as well as a resurgent civil society. This context meant that the media was able to play a relatively robust role in reporting and influencing the transition although the fact that the Abdulsalami Abubakar regime refused to repeal several "death...
Show moreThis essay examines the role which the Nigerian media played in the transition from military rule to elected civilian government. It observes that the immediate political context of the transition was a post-Abacha liberalizing military administration as well as a resurgent civil society. This context meant that the media was able to play a relatively robust role in reporting and influencing the transition although the fact that the Abdulsalami Abubakar regime refused to repeal several "death decrees" targeted at the media remained a key constraining factor on the boldness and imaginativeness of the press in its reporting and monitoring of the transition. Furthermore, while the media, in all its plurality, offered coverage to all of the political parties, it was equally clear that the better financially-endowed People's Democratic Party (PDP) which also emerged as the dominant party was able to win greater advantage over the two other political parties, namely, the All People's Party and the Alliance for Democracy, through the purchase of advertisement space in the print and electronic media. On the whole, the Nigerian media played its role in the transition with credit and whatever weaknesses are observed in its performance and in the skewing of the outcomes of the transition owe more to the shallowness of the transition itself and less to the shortcomings of the media.
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Title: Ethnicity and transition to democracy in Nigeria : explaining the passing of authoritarian rule in a multi-ethnic society
Creator: Ibeanu, Okechukwu
Date: 2000-12
Collection: African Journal of Political Science
Description: This essay addresses an important variable in Nigerian politics, namely, ethnicity and the ways in which it affects the conduct of national affairs. It represents an effort at theorizing the role and place of ethnicity in the transition from authoritarianism in a multi-ethnic setting such as that represented by Nigeria. Drawing on historical evidence on the ways in which ethnicity was constructed in colonial and post-colonial Nigeria as well as the wide literature on the subject, an attempt...
Show moreThis essay addresses an important variable in Nigerian politics, namely, ethnicity and the ways in which it affects the conduct of national affairs. It represents an effort at theorizing the role and place of ethnicity in the transition from authoritarianism in a multi-ethnic setting such as that represented by Nigeria. Drawing on historical evidence on the ways in which ethnicity was constructed in colonial and post-colonial Nigeria as well as the wide literature on the subject, an attempt is made to demonstrate the centrality of the variable to Nigerian politics but without suggestion that it is the sole or most important determinant of political outcomes. Indeed, it is argued that there are other important variables, such as class, which not only affect the political process but also impinge on ethnicity. The ways in which ethnicity influences the different phases of the transition from authoritarianism are discussed drawing on the Nigerian experience.
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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.
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Title: Book review : All poor together. By John Hollaway. Johannesburg: Capricorn Books, 2000
Creator: McMillan, S. D.
Date: 2000-12
Collection: African Journal of Political Science

Title: Notes for contributors
Date: 2000-12
Collection: African Journal of Political Science

Title: Cover and publication data
Date: 2001-06
Collection: African Journal of Political Science

Title: Art toward social development : an exhibition of South African Art
Creator: MEDU Art Ensemble (Gaborone, Botswana)
Date: 1982
Collection: Africana Posters Collection
Description: Lithograph poster shows figure in beret and blindfolded on a tightrope. In his back pocket are a pencil and a paintbrush. Below him are images of a city divided by the tightrope. On the right side are large fenced in houses with pools, cars, and military tanks on the street. On the left are smaller, tightly packed houses with black figures in the streets. In the distance of both sides is a city scape. On the right are tall buildings, and on the left are buildings very close together with...
Show moreLithograph poster shows figure in beret and blindfolded on a tightrope. In his back pocket are a pencil and a paintbrush. Below him are images of a city divided by the tightrope. On the right side are large fenced in houses with pools, cars, and military tanks on the street. On the left are smaller, tightly packed houses with black figures in the streets. In the distance of both sides is a city scape. On the right are tall buildings, and on the left are buildings very close together with smoke stacks. Title and information on the exhibition are below image. Image text are bordered in burgundy.
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