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Crafting the New Nigeria : Confronting the Challenges / ed. by Robert I. Rotberg. - 1 online resource (273 p.)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Troubled Nigeria: Great Opportunities, Tough Challenges -- 2 Unity with Diversity: Toward Democratic Federalism -- 3 Unity or Regionalism: The Nationalities Question -- 4 Democratizing Nigeria’s Federal Experiment -- 5 Reordering Nigerian Federalism: Making It More Confederal -- 6 Getting the Politics Right: Governance and Economic Failure in Nigeria -- 7 Nigeria as an Economic Powerhouse: Can It Be Achieved? -- 8 The 2003 Elections: Hardly Credible, but Acceptable -- 9 Principal Human Rights Challenges -- 10 HIV/AIDS in Nigeria: The Challenges of a National Epidemic -- 11 The Roots of Sectarian Violence, and Its Cure -- 12 Needed: Better Leadership -- List of Acronyms -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book

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Is Nigeria, with its vast wealth in both human and natural resources, on the path to realizing its enormous potential? Or is it in danger of becoming a failed state? Crafting the New Nigeria considers the challenges that the country's leadership now faces, offering rich—and sobering—analyses of Nigeria's current political and economic systems.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9781626370838

Standard No.: 10.1515/9781626370838 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African.

LC Class. No.: JQ3090 / .C73 2004eb

Dewey Class. No.: 320.9669