MILITARY AND THE NIGERIAN STATE, 1966-1993: A STUDY OF THE STRATEGIES OF POLITICAL POWER CONTROL
ISBN: 1592215696The Military and the Nigerian State establishes the circumstances of military incursion into Nigerian politics and examines the civil war and how it enhanced the military s control of political power. It highlights and analyses the strategies which the military rulers consciously employed to monopolise political power in Nigeria between 1966 and 1993. It concludes that: the deliberate corrective regime posturing; the politics of patronage and subordination; the employment of coercive and repressive methods; militarization and guided transition programmes were used (with varying degrees of success) by different military regimes to prolong their hold on political power.
Product details
- Publisher : Africa World Press, Inc.; 1st edition (April 17, 2007)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 206 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1592215696
- ISBN-13 : 978-1592215690
- Item Weight : 10.4 ounces