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Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- A. Assumption and Problem: Ethnicity as the Cause of Conflicts in Africa -- B. An Overview of the Nigerian Situation -- C. Significance of the Research Study -- D. The Structure of the Dissertation -- E. Methodology -- Research Methodology -- Theoretical Basis -- Variables -- Comparative Case Studies and Unit of Analysis -- Nonprobability Sampling: Purposive and Convenience Sampling Designs -- Data Collection: Experiences during Field Research -- On the Warri Crisis -- On Jos Conflicts

This text explores the gravest threats to human security in Africa. Written by leading experts on its various themes, it combines legal and policy perspectives on the issues, making it an indispensable book for those seeking to learn more about the real challenges facing Africans and African organizations

The perennial abject poverty in Africa has motivated this thesis to inquire into some of the factors that impede economic growth which affect the living standard of the people on the continent where the average person survives on less than a dollar per day. This essay has picked corruption as a topic to investigate for its effects on economic growth in Africa. Other factors that also affect and impede economic growth such as government debt, unemployment and population (children) have been selected as control variables for the purpose of eliminating alternative explanations in order to know the exact magnitude of the effects of corruption on economic growth. The hybrid nature of this thesis connects two subjects including Political Science and Economics. Largely in part, corruption is strictly within the purview of scholars in Political Science who claim it is a problem of good governance based upon Institutions. The other three subjects government debt, unemployment and population (children) are strictly within the purview of Economics and scholars apply these concepts as foundations and basics for their economic theories. Because of the divergent approaches with different methodological tools from these two subjects to the research for the effects of corruption on economic growth, empirical studies are very rare and with the exemption of Paolo Mauro who pioneered empirical research into the effects of corruption on economic growth, the literature review is empty. This is understandable because scholars from each subject decided to stick to their lane and mind their own business by doing what they do best and only with the subjects from their field of study. To cross over into another discipline from one of these subjects into the other, as required by this research question entails a lot of versatility of knowledge in both disciplines. Being that both subjects are from the same Social Sciences family, the methodological tools from Political Science could be used to investigate causality. Thus for empirical ...