Suchergebnisse

On August 27, 1985, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida succeeded to leadership of Nigeria by a coup d'etat. This book intends to analyse the essential contributions of the IBB era to the historical development of Nigeria. The decisions which have been taken by the IBB Administration and which are described in this book include the structural adjustment programme for economic recovery and development; measures to transform the rural and agricultural sectors of the country; policies of economic liberalisation; and the establishment of the Directorate for Social Mobilisation, popularly referred to as "MAMSER". (DÜI-Hff)

This book is an undertaking by a trio of committed intellectuals, who as participant observers in the transition programme of the Babangida Administration, provide an account of the structural and institutional dynamics of the transition programme. The book underscores that this transition to a democratically elected government must be viewed as a learning process and its self-adjusting corrective mechanisms and inherent flexibility, better appreciated. (DÜI-Hff)

The debate between the two main authors is essentially about understanding the causes of the Nigerian economic crisis

This book is a collection of original essays intended to interprete aspects of Nigeria's experiment with democracy. Instead of a mere recount of Nigerian recent history and politics, salient elements which lend themselves to theoretical and empirical interpretation have been chosen in the knowledge that contemporary Nigerian politics revolve more or less around them