This Fiction Called Nigeria : The Struggle for Democracy
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Verso's Southern Questions
ISBN-10
1804291803
ISBN-13
9781804291801
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 22nd, 2024
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
194 grams
Dimensions
20.90 x 14.00 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
African historyPolitics & government
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An uncompromising look at Nigeria's crisis of democracy by a renowned essayist and critic.
In this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria’s crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious groups, the most populous country in Africa was fabricated by British colonizers at the turn of the twentieth century. In the years since its independence in 1960, Nigeria spent an unbroken quarter century as a military dictatorship. Yet the blessings of today’s democracy are unclear to many, especially among the more than half of the population living in extreme poverty. Buffeted by unemployment, saddled with debt, menaced by bandits and Islamic fundamentalists, Nigeria faces the threat of disintegration.<br><br>Maja-Pearce shows that recent mobilizations against police brutality, sexism, and homophobia reveal a powerful undercurrent of discontent, especially among the country’s youth. If Nigeria has a future, he shows here, it is in the hands of young people unwilling to go on as before.
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