
Sustaining Nigeria
The Politics of Oil Dependency and the struggle against state collapse in Nigeria post-Cold War
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The book is concentrated on the period of 1990-1995 in Nigerian Politics which remains synonymous with abrupt military coups, an 'abortive Third Republic' and the political exposal of securitizing discourse rendered to antagonists of Nigeria's 'khakistocracy'-led rule, '...[condemning] Nigerians to seeming perpetual purposelessness, not minding the lumpish submission to an even firmer neo-colonial grip'1. Foremost, this work shall explore two disparate albeit interrelated theories with the first (1) structural-Marxist foci of 'internal colonialism' derived from the Dependency Theory and the se...
The book is concentrated on the period of 1990-1995 in Nigerian Politics which remains synonymous with abrupt military coups, an 'abortive Third Republic' and the political exposal of securitizing discourse rendered to antagonists of Nigeria's 'khakistocracy'-led rule, '...[condemning] Nigerians to seeming perpetual purposelessness, not minding the lumpish submission to an even firmer neo-colonial grip'1. Foremost, this work shall explore two disparate albeit interrelated theories with the first (1) structural-Marxist foci of 'internal colonialism' derived from the Dependency Theory and the second (2) agency-orientated focus of the 'extraversion' theory used to evaluate the genesis of Niger Delta-related crises. The study shall also highlight a 'top-down' governmental framing of the crises to underpin the lowly referenced stratum of study centred on the strategic and coercive framing of 'extra-oil' conflicts situated in the 'Oil Rivers' of Nigeria.