Nigeria and the Politics of Survival as a Nation-stateEdwin Mellen Press, 1997 - 298 من الصفحات This volume addresses the struggles and strategies applied by the civilian and military administrations to resolve the issue of political instability in Nigeria. It examines its political history as an entity before Britain colonized the area, and the constitutional developments since 1914 when Britain amalgamated the northern and southern regions to form modern Nigeria. |
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