A Roadmap for Understanding African Politics: Leadership and Political Integration in Nigeria (African Studies)

This book examines the impact of post-colonial leadership on political integration in Nigeria, offering an in-depth understanding of the historical and contemporary forces that shape Nigeria's national politics as well as African politics generally. Okafor discusses how Nigeria's pre-colonial and colonial political histories along with contemporary external forces like neo-colonialism, as well as internal social, economic and political structures and developments, have affected emerging post-independence politics in the country. The study climaxes with an Africa-centered theory of political and integrative leadership and then uses it as a prism for analyzing six Nigerian post-independence political leaderships, encompassing Nigeria's First and Second Republics, along with their military interregna. The concluding chapter includes a discussion of the implications of the study for leadership and political integration in Africa in general. The world is watching to see whether Nigeria will succeed in its current third experiment with representative democracy, which was launched in 1999. This book examines the impact of post-colonial political leadership on political integration in Nigeria. After reviewing Nigeria's pre-colonial and colonial political histories, the book discusses how those histories, along with contemporary external forces like neo-colonialism as well as internal social, economic and political structures and developments have affected emerging post-independence politics in that country. The study climaxes with an Afro centric/Africa-centered theory of political and integrative leadership and then uses it as a prism for analyzing six Nigerian post-independence political leaderships, encompassing Nigeria's First and Second Republics, along with their military interregna. The concluding chapter includes a discussion of the implications of the study for leadership and political integration in Africa in general. This book offers an in-depth understanding of the historical and contemporary forces that shape the ebb and flow of Nigeria's national politics as well as African politics more generally. Examining the impact of post-colonial leadership on political integration in Nigeria, this book offers an understanding of the historical and contemporary forces that shape Nigeria's national politics as well as African politics. It discusses how those histories, along with external forces have affected emerging post-independence politics