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Nigeria at Fifty

Nigeria, Africas most populous and biggest democracy, celebrated her fiftieth year as an independent nation in October 2010. As the clich states, As Nigeria goes, so goes Africa. This book frames the socio-historical and political trajectory of Nigeria while examining the many dimensions of the critical choices that she has made as an independent nation. How does the social composition of interest and power illuminate the actualities and narratives of the Nigerian crisis? How have the choices made by Nigerian leaders structured, and/or have been structured by, the character of the Nigerian state and state-society relations? In what ways is Nigerias mono-product, debt-ridden, dependent economy fed by the politics of plunder? And what are the implications of these questions for the structural relationships of production, reproduction and consumption?

This book confronts these questions by making state-centric approaches to understanding African countries speak to relevant social theories that pluralize and complicate our understanding of the specific challenges of a prototypical postcolonial state.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary AfricanStudies.

Ebenezer Obadare is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA. He is the co-editor of Encountering the Nigerian State (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010). A MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing grant awardee, Dr. Obadares articles have appeared in African Affairs, The Journal of Modern African Studies, Development in Practice, Politique Africaine, Africa Development, African Identities, and the Review of African Political Economy.

Wale Adebanwi is an Assistant Professor in African-American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis in the United States. He is the co-editor of Encountering the Nigerian State (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010). A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing grant, Adebanwis articles have appeared in the Journal of Historical Sociology, The Journal of Modern African Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Media, Culture and Society, Review of African Political Economy, Citizenship Studies and the Journal of African History.

Nigerias modern history can be described as the twinning of hope and disaster. In this volume, composed to commemorate the countrys golden jubilee, Ebenezer Oba-dare and Wale Adebanwi warn that Nigeria runs the risk of exploding or imploding at any point given the large number of unresolved national problems. Yet, the editors of this important book affirm that Nigeria still contains within her the transformational possibilities and human potentialities which can be mobilized, harnessed and leveraged by a new kind of leadership.

Students of African politics will delight in this volume of essays by leading academics and the many insights it provides on the Nigerian predicament of political instability and stunted development.

Professor Richard Joseph

John Evans Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University.

Nigeria at Fifty

The Nation in Narration

Edited by

Ebenezer Obadare and Wale Adebanwi

First published 2011

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

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2011 Institute of Social and Economic Research

This book is a reproduction of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, vol. 28, issue 4. The Publisher requests to those authors who may be citing this book to state, also, the bibliographical details of the special issue on which the book was based.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN13: 9780-415608404

Disclaimer

The publisher would like to make readers aware that the chapters in this book are referred to as articles as they had been in the special issue. The publisher accepts responsibility for any inconsistencies that may have arisen in the course of preparing this volume for print.

Contents

Wale Adebanwi and Ebenezer Obadare

Eghosa E. Osaghae

Adekunle Amuwo

Cyril I. Obi

Rotimi Suberu

Afe Adogame

Darren Kew

Axel Harneit-Sievers

Wale Adebanwi is Assistant Professor of African-American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis, in the United States. He holds two PhDs, the first in Political Science from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and the other in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. A MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing grant awardee, Dr. Adebanwi has published essays in peer-reviewed journals such as Citizenship Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Historical Sociology, Journal of African History, Journal of Modern African Studies, and Review of African Political Economy. He is co-editor (with Ebenezer Obadare) of Encountering the Nigerian State (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010).

Afe Adogame holds a PhD in History of Religions from the University of Bayreuth in Germany. Prior to his appointment in 2005 to the lectureship in World Christianity, he was Teaching and Senior Research Fellow at the Department for the Study of Religion and Institute of African Studies, Bayreuth University from 19951998 and from 20002005. He was also a lecturer in the Department of Religions, Lagos State University, Nigeria between 1998 and 2000. His current research interests include religion in the new African diaspora, religious transnationalism, religion and youth, and religion in prison. One of his most recent publications is (co-edited) Religion crossing boundaries: transnational religious and social dynamics in Africa and the new African diaspora, Leiden: E.J. Brill (2010).

Adekunle Amuwo, the former Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and ex-Chair of Politics Department at the University of the North (now University of Limpopo), South Africa, is currently Professor of Political Science and International Relations in the School of Politics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus, Durban, South Africa. His multi-faceted research interests include International Political Economy, Governance, Comparative Politics, Democratisation and Integration, and Francophone Africa. He is the author of Civil society dynamics in Francophone Africa: A case study of Benin Republic, 19902008 (2009) and co-editor of Civil society, governance and regional integration in Africa (2009).

Axel Harneit-Sievers, Director, East Africa/Horn of Africa Regional Office, Heinrich Bll Foundation, is a historian and political scientist specializing in African and development studies. He completed his PhD in 1990 and his habilitation in 2002 at Hannover University. He taught African History at Hannover, Hamburg and Humboldt University (Berlin). Between 1993 and 2001, Axel Harneit-Sievers worked as research fellow at the Center for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin, for the Institute of African Studies in Hamburg (1999) and for the German Society for International Development in Bonn (2001). He has published extensively on the economic, social and political history and development of Africa, with a focus on Nigeria.

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