By Lucky Asuelime, Suzanne Francis
Against the heritage of a protracted and carrying on with list of political instability in Africa, this edited assortment offers a multi-disciplinary method of chosen concerns in African political reports. The contributions discover quite a number political and clash events, speak about efforts to advance indigenous clash solution mechanisms and view many of the key political and monetary matters dealing with the continent. the explicit state stories remove darkness from the variety of the African continent and point out the ways that the political and socio-economic contexts of African states endure at once upon the facility of states to resolve political and monetary demanding situations. the amount seeks to provide and advertise novel analytical frameworks, conceptual techniques and empirical bills of relevance to students engaged on Africa and to practitioners and coverage makers in politics, governance and peace tasks in Africa.
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The Gideon Orkar Coup The Gideon Orkar coup of April 22 1990 was unique in its ambition. It sought the outright balkanisation of the country on the basis of ethnicity. In speech broadcast, the coup plotter announced the excision of five states from the Nigerian state, and gave the conditions upon which they will be admitted. Eventually, the excision announcement became the major factor for the failure of the putsch, with devastating consequences for the plotters. The coup plotters were mainly from the Middle belt and southern Nigeria.
Fifth, as El Bushra proposed, technical assistance (in this case agricultural) should target production systems managed by women. Culturally and socially 3 War Experiences and Gendered Responses to Post Conflict Reintegration: The. . 37 appropriate technology coupled with capacity and skill development would enable women’s use of new technology. Realization of such technology would require community involvement in needs assessment activities. Sixth, reintegration programs ought to incorporate psychosocial services to deal with changing gender roles.
Indeed the general opinion is not whether Nigeria will take the final plunge but when. But so far, Nigeria remains standing and the longest surviving federation in the continent. In an attempt to understand its survival ability in the face of lifethreatening challenges, this paper identities the interplay of centrifugal and centripetal forces operating at opposing realms as major frame of analysis. It argues that forces pulling Nigeria apart and those pulling it together are almost equal. What are these forces and how do they operate?