This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy

This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for DemocracyIn this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adewale Maja Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigerias 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 todays democracy are unclear to

and emancipation are all topics explored within this publication

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and natural ramifications of established power structures

Buth conducted research for her work at the Museé royal d‘Afrique centrale in Tervuren near Brussels

Some of the wax prints that family members and her father’s friends are wearing are still made today by Vlisco in Helmond

and strength of nature

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Marked by a series of economic and institutional crises

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The 'New World Order' proclaimed by the United States in the wake of the Soviet collapse proved to be ungovernable by democratic means