Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria: The Failure of the First Republic

by Larry Diamond

The overthrow in January 1966 of Nigeria's First Republic erased what had been regarded as perhaps the most promising prospect for liberal democracy in post-colonial Africa. Marking the sweeping failure of parliamentary institutions across a continent of new nations, it accelerated the slide into a ghastly civil war.
Class, Ethnicity and Democracy is the first scholarly study to analyze the evolution, decay, and failure of Nigeria's First...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815624220
• ISBN13: 9780815624226
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"