Nigeria's Stumbling Democracy and Its Implications for Africa's Democratic Movement (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Okafor, Victor Oguejiofor

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Nigeria's Stumbling Democracy and its Implications for Africa's Democratic Movement is the first book to recount and analyze Nigeria's controversial general elections of April 2007. Because Nigeria's immense and diverse population of 140 million people and its wealth of natural resources make it a microcosm of Africa, Nigerian politics are an ideal case study and bellwether by which to view and understand African politics and the ongoing democratic experiments on the continent. Ten leading scholars of Nigerian and African politics, variously based in Nigeria, the US, and Europe, contribute original chapters commissioned by Professor Okafor to provide an account at once deep and comprehensive of what went wrong with these disputed presidential, federal, and state elections; together with their implications for the future of the democratic movement, both in Nigeria and in Africa as a whole. Although the 2007 general elections resulted in the first-ever handover of political power from one civilian government to another in the history of Nigeria, by which the two-term Christian president Olusegun Obasanjon was succeeded by a Muslim, Alhaji Musa Yar'Adua, they were condemned by internal and international watchdogs for pervasive vote-rigging, violence, intimidation, and fraud which were, as this book documents, perpetrated by and with the connivance of the nation's security forces. The disappointment of continental hopes that these elections might finally break with Nigeria's history of tainted elections has grave repercussions for the democracy movement not only in Nigeria but throughout Africa-as seen in the knock-on effect upon the disastrous general elections in Kenya later the same year.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313355875
• Artikelnr.: 37827559

Autorenporträt

Victor Oguejiofor Okafor is Professor of African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University. He directed African American Studies at North Carolina State University. He is the author of several books on Africology, including A Roadmap for Understanding African Politics: Leadership and Political Integration in Nigeria, which won a 2007 International Cheikh Anta Diop Conference award. As senior editor of the news department of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, he covered Nigerian national elections. He served as a staff reporter for The Daily Times of Nigeria.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: An Overview of
Nigerias Political History Chapter 3: Nigerias Disputed Elections and the
Resultant Leadership Legitimacy Crisis Chapter 4: Democracy on Sale: The
2007 Elections and the Future of the Democratic Movement in Africa Chapter
5: Dialectics of Patronage Politics and Representative Democracy: the Case
of Anambra State of Nigeria Chapter 6: Is Electronic Voting an Answer to
Nigerias Electoral Problems? Chapter 7: The Role of Geographical Zoning in
Nigerias Democracy Chapter 8: Nigeria's 2007 Elections and the Future of
Democracy in Africa: An Optimistic View Chapter 9: Nigerias 2007 Elections:
A Great Danger for the Future of Democracy in Africa Chapter 10: Nigerias
2007 Elections in Comparative Perspective: Democratic Capitalism and the
Crisis of Democracy in Africa Chapter 11: Democracy and Development in
Africa: Important Lessons from African American History