Yar’Adua’s Government
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Assignment: Election 2007
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Obasanjo’s Bid to Allow 3rd Term
Nigeria Seeks an Historic Accomplishment
Who will be Nigeria’s Next President?
Response Sheet for 2007 Election
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Nigeria’s Elections: Fraud and Troubles
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Nigeria Lecture Notes
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Performance and Legitimacy in Nigeria’s New Democracy
Sunday, April 8th, 2007Your task is to use specific evidence from Peter M. Lewis� briefing paper Performance and Legitimacy in Nigeria’s New Democracy as published in the 2006 issue of “Afrobarometer” to analyze how democracy is perceived in Nigeria.
In order to succeed you must use AND cite both the Lewis document and Mundt and your textbook. Your analysis should be 1-2 single-spaced pages and must be posted below (the comments link) by the time class commences.
I advise you to structure your essay as follows, though you may deviate from this outline as you see fit (I likewise envision a thematic approach):
I.The implications of history: evolution towards democracy
II.Analysis of the state of democracy in Nigeria 2000-2007
III. An explication of citizen perceptions towards Nigerian democracy
IV.The implications of performance on legitimacy: what needs to be done?
Read the Lewis piece:
Performance & Legitimacy in Nigeria’s New Democracy
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Afrobarometer
Sunday, March 25th, 2007Afrobarometer is an independent nonpartisan research center that measures the social, political and economic atmosphere in African countries. Their main page is here.
From the essays most relevant to you are:
Performance & Legitimacy in Nigeria’s New Democracy
and
Identity, Institutions & Democracy in Nigeria
Both essays provide concrete statistical analysis gleaned from questionairres such as this one
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The candidates to be Nigeria’s leader
Sunday, March 25th, 2007As political parties in Nigeria pick their presidential candidates for the April 2007 elections, the BBC News website’s Senan Murray profiles the strongest of them. Read On
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Worse Than Iraq?
Sunday, March 25th, 2007With an ethnically and religiously combustible population of 130 million, Nigeria is lurching toward disaster, and the stakes are high—for both Nigeria and the United States. An OPEC member since 1971, Nigeria has 35.9 billion barrels of proven petroleum reserves—the largest of any African country and the eighth largest on earth. It exports some 2.5 million barrels of oil a day, and the government plans to nearly double that amount by 2010. Nigeria is the fifth-largest supplier of oil to the United States; U.S. energy officials predict that within ten years it and the Gulf of Guinea region will provide a quarter of America’s crude.
It is hardly surprising, then, that since 9/11 the Bush administration has courted Nigeria as an alternative to volatile petro-states in the Middle East and Latin America. In 2002, the White House declared the oil of Africa (five other countries on the continent are also key producers) a “strategic national interest”—meaning that the United States would use military force, if necessary, to protect it. In short, Nigeria’s troubles could become America’s and, like those of the Persian Gulf, cost us dearly in blood and money.
Read more from Jeffrey Tayler here
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AP Central
Sunday, March 25th, 2007Paul J. Kaiser of University of Pennsylvania published this briefing paper on Nigeria for AP Central.
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Corruption in Nigeria
Sunday, March 25th, 2007Nigeria is ranked as one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
Daily, low-level corruption is visible on the street; policeman extorting money from motorists to supplement their meagre wages. But it is in the world of politics and government, where corruption has been most damaging. For decades the government has accrued huge oil revenues, yet the country suffers from a lack of basic infrastructure, and tens of millions live in poverty. At the same time, some politicians and their business associates have amassed personal fortunes.Although accusations of graft have long been a feature of Nigerian politics, as elections approach early next year, the politics of corruption have taken on a new powerful role.
BBC News on the Politics of Nigerian Corruption
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The Democratic Transition in Nigeria
Sunday, March 25th, 2007The election of Olusegun Obasanjo to the presidency of Nigeria in 1999 effectively brought an end to 16 years of military rule. Obasanjo became only the third head of government to be elected by the people (not counting the election of 1993, won by Chief Moshood Abiola but later annulled). Nigerians greeted the transition from military to civilian rule with widespread jubilation as they looked forward to a new era of stability, peace, and prosperity.
Read Iren Omo-Bare’s assessment as published on AP Central
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