Lamidi abedibu ou l'etat nigerian entre contraction et sous-traitance

In: La politique africaine, Heft 106, S. 110-127

Abstract

Although he has been at the hub of the emergence of a new mode of governance in Nigeria over the past two decades, scholarly analysis of the career of Chief Lamidi Ariyibi Adedibu remains surprisingly scanty. In correcting this oversight in the literature, this paper uses the personal & political trajectories of Chief Adedibu as a point of departure for a broader contemporary sociology of Nigerian politics. In emplacing Adedibu within a nuanced context of ' local' & 'national' politics, it addresses key analytic dilemmas with obvious continental resonances: the emergence & continued success of 'Big Men' in Nigerian (African) politics; the social, cultural & (para-) legal conditions that facilitate their tenacity & longevity; & what their survival suggests about the futures of political neopatrimonialism in African societies. Adapted from the source document.