Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/84766 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy No. 49
Publisher: 
University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn
Abstract: 
The problem I want to examine is how to characterize the relationship between ethnicity and federalism in Nigeria. I want to illustrate how the dynamics of ethnicity, by which I mean its manipulation as a political resource of conflict and accommodation by the political elite, has shaped the development of federalism in the country. In what follows I attempt to build on arguments I have advanced elsewhere (Jinadu, 1982; 1984; 1985; 1994), drawing on recent trends in Nigerian politics, and situating the discussion in historical and comparative perspective.
Subjects: 
Political Economy
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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