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Title: | The National Question and Radical Politics in Nigeria |
Author: | Mustapha, Abdul R. |
Year: | 1986 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 13 |
Issue: | 37 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 81-96 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | nation building Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056248608703701 |
Abstract: | Examination of some of the theoretical and political issues relating to the resolution of the national question in contemporary Nigeria. The first section attempts a definition of the problematic, while the second looks at the specific manifestations of the national question within the Nigerian political economy. Apart from the contradiction between Nigeria and imperialism, that between the northern and southern parts of the country, and that between the majority nationalities (Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba), have been politically the most decisive. They have manifested themselves in a series of educational, economic, and political inequalities, which are given their specific meaning by the class nature of Nigerian society. The relationship between the national question and class politics emerges clearly in the third section, which examines ruling class solutions to the national question. The fourth considers the relationship between radical politics and the national question, in particular calling into question the theory of the 'northern oligarchy' which, to the extent that it justifies an alliance with the southern bourgeoisie or a militarist faction within the army, is injurious to the radical cause. The author concludes that the national question in Nigeria can be resolved only in the context of a social revolution. Bibliogr. |