Oil, Politics and Violence:Nigeria's Military Coup Culture (1966-1976)
by Max Siollun
Price: N10000
Product Code: 1328463779
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Number of Pages: 282
Binding: Paper Back
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Edition: 2009
ISSN: 9780875867083
Availability: To be delivered within 4 to 21 working days
Summary: The author names names, and explores how British influence aggravated indigenous rivalries. He shows how various factions in the military were able to hold onto power and resist civil and international pressure for democratic governance by exploiting the country’s oil wealth and ethnic divisions to its advantage. Africa is more and more in the headlines as developed countries — and China — clash over the need for the continent’s resources. Yet there are few serious books to help us understand any aspect of the never-ending cascade of wars and conflicts. Other titles on Nigeria are mostly children’s books or travel guides, with the exception of Daniel Jordan Smith’s A Culture of Corruption. The current work focuses specifically on the social tensions, the motivations and the methods of the series of coups that rent Nigeria.