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Nigeria's Stumbling Democracy and Its Implications for Africa's Democratic Movement
Series: PSI Reports
 Victor Oguejiofor Okafor, ed.

0-313-35586-X/978-0-313-35586-8

Description
Leading scholars of Nigerian politics analyze what went wrong in Nigeria's controversial general elections of April 2007, and the implications for the future of the democratic movement in Africa.

Reviews:
-"Bringing together contributions from political scholars from Nigeria, the United States, and Europe, Okafor (African American studies, Eastern Michigan U.) presents a collection that focus on the problems of the state, federal, and presidential elections in Nigeria in April, 2007 and their implications for democratic development in Nigeria and in Africa as a whole. Although the elections led to the peaceful hand-over of power from Olusegun Obasanjo to Alhaji Musa Yar'Adua, many critics, including internal and international poll observers, charged that the elections could not really be considered free and fair. The volume's 11 chapters summarize Nigeria's political evolution; place the 2007 election controversy in historical and international context; discuss the injection of commercialization into electoral politics; examine patronage politics and the elections in the Nigerian state of Anambra; explore the prospects of electronic voting for Nigerian elections; criticize the role of geographical zoning in the allocation of political and bureaucratic offices; place the 2007 elections in the context of general African political trends; compare the extrinsic factors impeding democratic development in Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya; and draw lessons for democracy and development in Africa from the experiences of the African diaspora in the Americas." —Reference & Research Book News
About the Author
Victor Oguejiofor Okafor is Professor of African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University. He directed African American Studies at North Carolina State University. He is the author of several books on Africology, including A Roadmap for Understanding African Politics: Leadership and Political Integration in Nigeria, which won a 2007 International Cheikh Anta Diop Conference award. As senior editor of the news department of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, he covered Nigerian national elections. He served as a staff reporter for The Daily Times of Nigeria.
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