Minority rights and the national question in Nigeria. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Uyilawa Usuanlele, Bonny Ibhawoh, editors.
• Editors: Usuanlele, Uyilawa; Ibhawoh, Bonny
• Contents: Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction: Minorities and the National Question in Nigeria; Notes; Part I: Minorities, Colonialism and Decolonization; Chapter 2: Decolonization and the Minority Question in Nigeria: The Willink Commission Revisited; Decolonization and the Making of Minorities; Evaluating Minority Claims at the Willink Commission; Conclusion: Minority Rights or Elite Privileges; Notes; Chapter 3: Historicizing Ethnic Minorities' Movements and State Creation in Nigeria, 1946-1967 Ethnic Minorities and Agitation for State CreationPost-Colonial Nigeria and State Creation; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: Minority Groups: Bridgeheads in Nigerian Politics, 1950s-1966; Introduction; Conceptual Clarification and Background to the National Question; The Minorities: Bridgeheads in Nigerian Politics; Political Bridgeheads and the Emergence of "National" Politics in Nigeria; Conclusion; Notes; Part II: Minorities and Postcolonial Politics; Chapter 5: The Owegbe Cult: Political and Ethnic Rivalries in Early Postcolonial Benin City; A Note on Political Ethnicity Theory in the 1960s Politics in the Midwest Region of NigeriaMinority States Movement; NCNC and Otu-Ẹdo Conflict; Origins of Owegbe; Ritual Features of Owegbe; Owegbe Society Objectives; Analysis of Owegbe; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Midwest State's Non-Igbo Minorities' Responses to the Biafran Occupation and Federal Liberation in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970; Pre-War Midwest Region: The Politics of Eastern Igbo Majority Interest and Midwestern Igbo Minority Rule; Ethnic Politics Under Military Rule: Western Igbo Aspirations and the Biafran Occupation of the Midwest State Biafran Occupation, Atrocities and Administration in Midwest State The Federal Liberation of Midwest State and the Biafran Response; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7: Ethnicity, War and Military Politics in Nigeria; Federalism as a Special Brew; Militarism and Ethno-religious Politics; Notes; Part III: Minorities and Contemporary Nation-Building; Chapter 8: Willink's Report, Niger Delta Region and the Nigerian State 50 Years After: Any Hope for the Minority?; Historicizing the Problems of Minorities; Willink's Recommendations and the Minorities: The Niger Delta Region Example Marginalization of the Niger Delta Region: Reality or Imagination?Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9: National Integration, Citizenship, Political Participation and Democratic Stability in Nigeria; Conceptualizing Citizenship and National Integration; Issues, Problems and Contexts of National Integration; Strategies for Ensuring National Integration; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 10: Federalism, Ethnic Minorities and National Integration in Nigeria; Conceptualizing Federalism, Ethnic Minorities and National Integration; Federalism and Integration in Multi-Ethnic Societies
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 320.5409669; History; Minorities -- Nigeria; Minorities -- Civil rights -- Nigeria; Nationalism -- Nigeria; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference; Minorities; Minorities -- Civil rights; Nationalism; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Policy; Politics & government; Social justice; History -- Africa -- General; African history; Nigeria; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319506302; 3319506307; 3319506293; 9783319506296
• Related ISBNs: 9783319506296
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 10, 2017).
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