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Author: Uyilawa Usuanlele 

This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria. Nigeria provides a framework for examining the central paradox in post-colonial nation building projects in Africa – the tension between majority rule and minority rights. The liberal democratic model on which most African states were founded at independence from colonial rule, and to which they continue to aspire, is founded on majority rule. It is also founded on the protection of the rights of minority groups to political participation, social inclusion and economic resources. Maintaining this tenuous balance between majority rule and minority rights has, in the decades since independence, become the key national question in many African countries, perhaps none more so than Nigeria. This volume explores these issues, focusing on four key themes as they relate to minority rights in Nigeria: ethnic and religious identities, nationalism and federalism, political crises and armed conflicts. 

Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria 1st table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: Minorities and the National Question in Nigeria
Notes
Part I: Minorities, Colonialism and Decolonization
Chapter 2: Decolonization and the Minority Question in Nigeria: The Willink Commission Revisited
Decolonization and the Making of Minorities
Evaluating Minority Claims at the Willink Commission
Conclusion: Minority Rights or Elite Privileges
Notes
Chapter 3: Historicizing Ethnic Minorities’ Movements and State Creation in Nigeria, 1946–1967
Ethnic Minorities and Agitation for State Creation
Post-Colonial Nigeria and State Creation
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 4: Minority Groups: Bridgeheads in Nigerian Politics, 1950s–1966
Introduction
Conceptual Clarification and Background to the National Question
The Minorities: Bridgeheads in Nigerian Politics
Political Bridgeheads and the Emergence of “National” Politics in Nigeria
Conclusion
Notes
Part II: Minorities and Postcolonial Politics
Chapter 5: The Owegbe Cult: Political and Ethnic Rivalries in Early Postcolonial Benin City
A Note on Political Ethnicity Theory in the 1960s
Politics in the Midwest Region of Nigeria
Minority States Movement
NCNC and Otu-Ẹdo Conflict
Origins of Owegbe
Ritual Features of Owegbe
Owegbe Society Objectives
Analysis of Owegbe
Concluding Remarks
Notes
References
Chapter 6: Midwest State’s Non-Igbo Minorities’ Responses to the Biafran Occupation and Fede
Pre-War Midwest Region: The Politics of Eastern Igbo Majority Interest and Midwestern Igbo Minori
Ethnic Politics Under Military Rule: Western Igbo Aspirations and the Biafran Occupation of the
Biafran Occupation, Atrocities and Administration in Midwest State 
The Federal Liberation of Midwest State and the Biafran Response
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 7: Ethnicity, War and Military Politics in Nigeria
Federalism as a Special Brew
Militarism and Ethno-religious Politics
Notes
Part III: Minorities and Contemporary Nation-Building
Chapter 8: Willink’s Report, Niger Delta Region and the Nigerian State 50 Years After: Any Hope
Historicizing the Problems of Minorities
Willink’s Recommendations and the Minorities: The Niger Delta Region Example
Marginalization of the Niger Delta Region: Reality or Imagination?
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 9: National Integration, Citizenship, Political Participation and Democratic Stability in
Conceptualizing Citizenship and National Integration
Issues, Problems and Contexts of National Integration
Strategies for Ensuring National Integration
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 10: Federalism, Ethnic Minorities and National Integration in Nigeria
Conceptualizing Federalism, Ethnic Minorities and National Integration
Federalism and Integration in Multi-Ethnic Societies
Federalism and Ethnic Minorities’ Integration in Nigeria
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 11: Religious Referent Power and Ethnic Militias in Nigeria: The Imperative for  Pax Nig
Conceptualizing Religious Referent Power
Conceptualizing Ethnic Militias
The Rise of Ethnic Militias in Nigeria
Religion and Ethnic Militias in Nigeria
Supreme Egbesu Assembly
The Bakassi Boys
Oodua People’s Congress (OPC)
Appraising the Nationality Question in Nigeria

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