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The Nigerian military has been engaged in a program of transition to democratic rule since 1985. The country's military rulers developed "transition politics" into a strategy of transitions without end, a ruse to prevent democratization. Hopefully, Nigeria is now at the crossroads. One of the most important issues posed in the transition has been the ethnoregional one: Would entrenched ethnoregional forces allow political power to shift from the North to the South? It is not a new question in Nigerian transition politics.Two broad issues surface when ethnoregional domination emerges as a political issue in Nigeria: control of political power and its instruments, such as the armed forces and the judiciary; and control of economic power and resources.

There 15 increasing evidence that social movements constitute an important repository of Africa's political practice. Émile Durkheim reminds us that although social facts, expressed in thought, feeling, or action, are derived from an environment external to the individual, they impose on him a route that he is obliged to follow. He suggests, therefore, that we study the public law that codifies existing political values and the sanctions that oblige obedience. The problem, however, is that formal institutions are sometimes unable to penetrate and impose their logic on social movements.

Analysiert werden die Hintergründe der gewaltsamen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Moslems und Christen 1987 in Kaduna-State. Ursachen für die Krise liegen sowohl in der wachsenden Politisierung der Religion auf regionaler Ebene mit entsprechenden Machtauseinandersetzungen als auch im Anwachsen fundamentalistischer Strömungen. (DÜI-Fry)

This article analyses the immediate and long term causes of the outbreak of religious violence between Muslims and Christians in Kaduna State, Nigeria, in 1987. The author argues that the crisis arose from the politicisation of religion in the regional contest for power. On the one hand is the issue of the rise of fundamentalist Christianity and Islam. On the other is the struggle for political power by the 'northern Oligarchy' within the north and against the south in which religion has become a means for forging new coalitions.

Diskussion der gesellschaftlichen und politischen Situation Nigerias im Vorfeld der für 1992 angestrebten Demokratisierung. Hervorgehoben wird die Rolle Babangidas bei der Vorbereitung einer gelenkten Demokratie; das komplizierte Verhältnis von ethnischen Gruppen, Religionenföderativen und angestrebtem Parteiensystem; Wirtschaftskrise und Strukturanpassung. Im Rahmen dieser Probleme werden die Kommunalwahlen von 1987 und die Entwicklung der politischen Kräfteverhältnisse analysiert. (DÜI-Wsl)