Description
| Product ID: | 9783110766431 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Nigeria's 2019 Democratic Experience |
| Authors: | Author: Egodi Uchendu, Olawari D. J. Egbe |
| Page Count: | 252 |
| Subjects: | African history, African history, Sociology, Anthropology, Comparative politics, Elections and referenda / suffrage, Political structures: democracy, Political campaigning and advertising, Corruption in politics, government and society, Sociology, Anthropology, Comparative politics, Elections & referenda, Political structures: democracy, Political campaigning & advertising, Political corruption, Africa, West Africa, USA |
| Description: | Nigeria''s democratisation efforts since attaining political independence from Britain in 1960 have been tumultuous and have spanned over three successive republics. A persistent bug decimating Nigeria''s democracy and repeatedly leading to milita Nigeria''s democratisation efforts since attaining political independence from Britain have been tumultuous and have spanned over three successive republics. A persistent bug decimating Nigeria''s democracy and repeatedly leading to military coups has been brazen electoral violence perpetrated by the nation''s political elite. Nigeria''s 2019 Democratic Experience analyses and explains what went wrong in Nigeria''s experiment with democracy. Nigeria, Africa''s most populous nation and the world''s seventh most populous nation, also contributes 70% of West Africa''s population. She is sub-Saharan Africa''s largest oil producer and has remained Africa''s largest economy by GDP since 2014. The country has hundreds of diverse ethnic nationalities and languages grouped into 36 states (or federating units) and an independent federal capital territory. Though recognized as Africa''s largest democracy, her democratisation process since the 1960s has remained tumultuous with massive electoral violence and political intolerance. This repeatedly compelled the military to intervene in the nation''s political history in the years 1966, 1983 and 1985. It is these developments that provided the motivation for this volume to capture for posterity the conduct of the 2019 General Elections in Nigeria. |
| Imprint Name: | De Gruyter |
| Publisher Name: | De Gruyter |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-06-06 |
