Merger Politics of Nigeria and Surge of Sectarian ViolenceThe book evaluates the unrelenting waves of ethno-religious and political conflicts with regards to the danger posed to the emerging democratic process in Nigeria by exploring the prevalence of ethno-religious conflicts in Nigeria as an upshot of predisposed confliction of colonialism, heightened by military authoritarianism and consolidated by the contradictions entrenched in the Nigerian federalism. It is against the ambience of extreme ethnic agitations and hostilities in the recent times, that the initiative of this book is predicated on spotlighting conflicts in Nigeria and Africa by extension whilst accentuating the escalation of violence amid implication for national security and the countrys corporate existence. |
Contents
| 1 | |
The legacies of British colonization and institutionalization of violence in Nigeria | 21 |
The PreColonial Nations of Nigeria | 57 |
The past Chronicles of Nigeria | 79 |
The Great Moments of Nigeria | 99 |
The Merger Politics of Nigeria | 167 |
Opposition and reactions to the colonial Amalgamation scheme | 187 |
Sectarian violence in Nigeria | 217 |
National Politics and Conflicts | 365 |
Insurgency and credible political commitment in the Nigerian democracy | 389 |
The surge of ethnic militias delegitimization of state and threat to Nigerias survival | 415 |
Federalism and ethnic Conflicts | 441 |
Conflict transformation hinged on trust? | 457 |
British complicity in the Nigeria war over Biafra | 475 |
Reparation truth and reconciliation | 521 |
Concluding thoughts on Merger politics and the realisms of Nigeria | 541 |
A New dawn for ethnic and religious extremism in Nigeria | 237 |
Memoirs of the Aburi Accord in contemporary Nigeria | 261 |
Ethnic Nationalism and Nigerias National Questions | 295 |
The Vicissitudes of Military Rule | 329 |
| 569 | |
Appendices | 575 |
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