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Ibhawoh, Bonny.

Minority rights and the national question in Nigeria

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Minority rights and the national question in Nigeriaedited by Uyilawa Usuanlele, Bonny Ibhawoh.
other author:	Usuanlele, Uyilawa.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017.
Description:	xv, 253 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	MinoritiesNigeria.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50630-2
ISBN:	9783319506302$q(electronic bk.)

Minority rights and the national question in Nigeria
Minority rights and the national question in Nigeria[electronic resource] /edited by Uyilawa Usuanlele, Bonny Ibhawoh. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xv, 253 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - African histories and modernities. - African histories and modernities..

1. Introduction: Minorities and the National Question in Nigeria -- I. Minorities, Colonialism and Decolonization -- 2. Decolonization and the Minority Question in Nigeria: The Willink Commission Revisited -- 3. Historicizing Ethnic Groups' Movements and State Creation in Nigeria, 1947-1967 -- 4. Minority Groups: Bridgeheads in Nigerian Politics, 1950s - 1966 -- II. Minorities and Postcolonial Politics -- 5. The Owegbe Cult: Political and Ethnic Rivalries in Early Post-Colonial Benin City -- 6. Midwest Region's Non-Igbo Minorities Responses to Biafran Occupation and Federal Liberation in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970 -- 7. Ethnicity, War and Military Politics in Nigeria -- III. Minorities and Contemporary Nation-Building -- 8. Willink's Report, Niger Delta Region and the Nigerian State Fifty Years After: Any Hope for the Minority? -- 9. National Integration, Citizenship, Political Participation and Democratic Stability in Nigeria -- 10. Ethnic Minorities and the Quest for National Integration in Nigeria: Federalism and State Creation to the Rescue -- 11. Religious Referent Power and Ethnic Militias in Nigeria: The Imperative for PaxNigeriana.

This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria. Nigeria provides a framework for examining the central paradox in post-colonial nation building projects in Africa - the tension between majority rule and minority rights. The liberal democratic model on which most African states were founded at independence from colonial rule, and to which they continue to aspire, is founded on majority rule. It is also founded on the protection of the rights of minority groups to political participation, social inclusion and economic resources. Maintaining this tenuous balance between majority rule and minority rights has, in the decades since independence, become the key national question in many African countries, perhaps none more so than Nigeria. This volume explores these issues, focusing on four key themes as they relate to minority rights in Nigeria: ethnic and religious identities, nationalism and federalism, political crises and armed conflicts.

ISBN: 9783319506302$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-50630-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

775888
Minorities
--Nigeria.

LC Class. No.: JC312 / .M56 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 320.5409669

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