Nigeria is usually characterised as a deeply divided state in which major political issues are
vigorously–some would say violently–contested along the lines of the complex ethnic …

Originally published in 1982, this book provides an important set of basic materials for
students of rural development. Key papers have been chosen and arranged, and the editor …

The book proposes the construction of a different and more voluntary future. It maintains that
the processes that perpetuate relative or absolute poverty for more than one thousand …

The theme of democratization in Africa is being raised more urgently now than at any time
since independence. The nature of new political activity and the terms of new political …

Conventional accounts present colonial police forces as agencies set up for crime control,
thereby bringing peace and progress to warring, undeveloped indigenous tribes. However …

The thrust of this paper is to account for the gap between mere aspirations and actual
practices vis-àvis the management of Federalism in Nigeria. The paper begins with the …

In this book, Jeremiah I. Dibua challenges prevailing notions of Africa's development crisis
by drawing attention to the role of modernization as a way of understanding the nature and …

The problems posed to mankind by corruption due to the lack of its definitive and
universalistic conceptualisation and, its resultant conscious and unconscious …

Central to the capitalist orientation introduced to the Third World nations through colonialism
is the role of entrepreneurs in development. This group is still perceived as inevitable if …

Africa is known as a continent of conflict. Entire regions have been caught up in violent
conflicts that have sometimes resulted in state collapse. Yet during its nearly four decades of …