Jeremiah I. Dibua - Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa: The Nigerian Experience

MODERNIZATION AND THE CRISIS OF DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA

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This series brings together research from a range of disciplines including criminology, cultural studies and applied social studies, focusing on experiences of ethnic, gender and class relations. In particular, the series examines the treatment of marginalized groups within the social systems for criminal justice, education, health, employment and welfare.

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Democratic Policing in Transitional and Developing Countries Edited by Nathan Pino and Michael D. Wiatrowski

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The Nigerian Experience

Jeremiah I. Dibua
Morgan State University, USA

First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing

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Although the writing of this book started in earnest in 2003, the ideas expressed here have greatly benefited from years of interactions with numerous colleagues, friends and students. I cannot name all of them here. I am, however, greatly indebted to them. I particularly wish to thank my colleagues in the College of Arts and Social Sciences of the former Bendel State University (now Ambrose Alii University), Ekpoma, Nigeria, where I started my university teaching career. The frank, often "brutal" and yet lively, debates we had in the weekly faculty seminar series and along the hallways greatly helped to shape my ideas. In this regard, I am particularly grateful to Bright Ekuerhare, A. C. Unomah, J. B. Webster, Onaiwu Ogbomo, Peter Egbon, Bona Chizea, Polycarp Ikuenobe, Biko Agozino and the following colleagues who are now deceased, Austen Adeoye, Frank Mowah and Ben Efoghe. At the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria, I benefited greatly from my discussions with colleagues in the History Department as well as those in the social sciences. I acknowledge the encouragement and support of A. D. Nzemeke, a retired Professor of History, University of Benin. I also wish to acknowledge the support and encouragement of Burney J. Hollis, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Morgan State University, Annette Palmer, Chair of History Department, Morgan State University, and my colleagues in the History Department, especially Rosalyn Terborg-Penn and Glenn Phillips. I thank Bana Okpu, Imounu Ikhimioya, Joseph Osagie, Owen Kalinga, Sylvia Jacobs, Tunde Adeleke and Willie Lamouse-Smith who contributed in various ways to the successful completion of this work.

I am grateful to Musa Abutudu for the very beneficial discussions we have had over the years and for his incisive comments on some of the chapters of this book. The initial draft of chapter 6 was written during an NEH Summer Seminar fellowship at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I am grateful to the Directors of the Seminar, Don Crummey and Cynthia Radding, and fellow participants for their comments. I am also grateful to Abubakar Momoh, the subsequently named reviewer of the manuscript, for his insightful comments. I acknowledge the assistance of my graduate assistants, Frederick Kumolalo and Dana 'Yaa' Hammond in helping to locate source materials; I also acknowledge the excellent job Yaa did in the preparation of the final version of the manuscript.

I want to thank Caroline Wintersgill and Mary Savigar of Ashgate Publishing for offering me the opportunity to write this book and for their patience and encouragement during the period of writing. I am grateful to my mother, my brothers, Emman, Victor and Isaiah, and my sister, Angela, for their constant support and encouragement. Words cannot express the depth of my gratitude to my wife and children, Genevieve, Ohiremen, Ihinosen and Ohiole for their encouragement, companionship and for making the home a very warm and lively place in spite of the sacrifices they made during the writing of this book.