... by Nigeria, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) imposed sanctions on the new junta and threatened a military intervention, adding to the suffering of the population. But ECOWAS eventually backed down, while the junta moved to cut off antiterrorism cooperation with France and the United...

... of national, regional, and global forces. © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 [email protected] Nigeria universities education civil society migration “Any restorative strategies must take into account the fact that this erosion has taken place over a long...

.... First, after a string of protests in recent years that by and large had fizzled out before gaining any sort of traction—#Occupy Nigeria (2012), #OurMumuDonDo (2016–17), #TakeItBackMovement (2018), and #RevolutionNow (2019)—the country was due for another bout of street action. All the frustrations...

...Ebenezer Obadare [T]he more distant the experience of military rule, the greater has been society's reconciliation to the reality of democracy as the only game in town. © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Ebenezer Obadare Nigeria...

... of California Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie art culture museums colonialism restitution cultural heritage patrimony France Emmanuel Macron Benin Nigeria Museum Black Civilizations Dakar Senegal Berlin Humboldt Forum PERSPECTIVE Momentum Builds for the Restitution of African Art...

... Ebenezer Obadare Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari Goodluck Jonathan governance corruption Boko Haram Islamists oil PERSPECTIVE A Nigerian President s Disappointing Return EBENEZER OBADARE EBENEZER OBADARE is a professor of sociology at the Univer- sity of Kansas and a research fellow...

... of the University of California Brandon Kendhammer Africa Nigeria elections democracy terrorism Boko Haram corruption Goodluck Jonathan Muhammadu Buhari African politics 170 [W]hile the March election map shows how divided the country still is in many respects, the peaceful turnover...

... The Regents of the University of California Elizabeth Sidiropoulos south Africa soft power pariah paragon china Nye Nigeria postcolonial Beijing consensus Washington frontline states Pretoria national party Zulu Inkatha congress ANC COSATU AU union Zuma president SAIIA Nepad...

... of California Adekeye Adebajo UN peacekeeping pax Africa African AU union economic community states ECCAS SADC development Southern ECOWAS west Ethiopia Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Ghana China Aesop colonial postcolonial Darfur Lumumba Angola Mozambique Mali CAR central...

...Marc Epprecht New anti-gay laws in Nigeria and Uganda are part of an emergent trend of scapegoating sexual minorities as a distraction from governance failures. But sanctions are not the answer. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California...

...Kate Meagher Celebration of Nigeria's economic recovery sits awkwardly with the realities of catastrophic poverty and unemployment in both the north and the south of the country. Kate Meagher Nigeria Africa Boko Haram unemployment poverty inequality economic growth oil population...

... of California William Reno Africa African Union regional security cooperation Liberia Nigeria 175 From the perspective of officials in Africa, participating in regional conflict man- agement is now one of the best ways for governments . . . to get international resources to strengthen...

... Villalón Islam Africa democracy sharia terrorism Somalia Nigeria diversity 187 [T]he effort to try to distinguish between good and bad Muslim ideologies may be much less important than the need to support functional political institutions. Between Democracy and Militancy: Islam in Africa...

... Winthrop education Save Children Millennium Development Goals gender inequality Aga Khan Foundation Ethiopia Nigeria Africa 191 Strategies to promote access to schooling are necessary but not sufficient for achieving successful learning for all of the region s children and young people...

... of California Nigeria Umaru Yar'Adua People's Democratic Party Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Goodluck Jonathan Federal Executive Council Olusegun Obasanjo Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Excess Crude Account 179 Nothing, wrote Reuben Abati, the editor...

...Robert B. Lloyd If democracy firmly establishes itself in this African giant and economic reform leads to increasing wealth and stability, Nigeria could serve as a beacon of inspiration for a continent many view as hopeless. 215 In April 2003 Nigerians reelected President Oluse-gun Obasanjo...

... of us Africa policy. © 2004 Current History. All rights reserved. 2004 The Regents of the University of California United States George Bush AIDS Randall Tobias Millennium Challenge AGOA Liberia Nigeria Zimbabwe oil 232 The Bush administration s foreign policy pri-orities over...

... democracy Ethiopia federalism Ghana Nigeria postcolonial South Africa Uganda 225 Africa s well-known developmental political problems remain. . . . But these problems also exist in political communities in every other part of the world. More important, they do not exhaust the story of politics...

...Rotimi T. Suberu The fragility of Nigeria's new democracy is rooted in the onerous burden of the preceding era of military misrule and the shallow nature of the May 1999 transition from autocracy to democracy. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University...