Research Catalog

Title

Nigeria's 2019 democratic experience / edited by Egodi Uchendu and Olawari D.J. Egbe.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]
• ©2022

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Additional Authors

• Uchendu, Egodi
• Egbe, Olawari D. J.

Description

xiii, 240 pages : color illustrations, color map; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Since 2007
• Democratization > Nigeria
• Democracy > Nigeria
• Political violence > Nigeria
• Election security > Nigeria
• Elections > Nigeria
• Democratization
• Politics and government
• Nigeria > Politics and government > 2007-
• Nigeria

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-10676

ISBN

• 3110766434
• 9783110766431

OCLC

1284982675

Title

Nigeria's 2019 democratic experience / edited by Egodi Uchendu and Olawari D.J. Egbe.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

Since 2007

Added Author

Uchendu, Egodi, editor.

Egbe, Olawari D. J., editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-10676