WEEK 11: Democracy and Ethnic Conflict: Nigeria

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TUESDAY (11/27)
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READINGS FOR WEEK 11
  • Freedom in the World, Chapter on Nigeria.
  • Chinua Achebe, A Man of the People.
  • Minabere Ibelema, "Nigeria: The Politics of Marginalization," Current History (2000): 211-214.

For further reading (not required):

  • "Nigeria: Strength Through Unity," in The Atlas of African Affairs (New York: Routledge, 1994): 86-93.
  • James S. Coleman, Nigeria: Background to Nationalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1958): 10-60.

 

From top to bottom: A map of Nigeria, a crowded Lagos marketplace, packed streets of Lagos.

   

 

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