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Title:State Creation in Nigeria: Failed Approaches to National Integration and Local Autonomy
Author:Alapiki, Henry E.
Year:2005
Periodical:African Studies Review
Volume:48
Issue:3
Period:December
Pages:49-65
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:federalism
central-local government relations
Politics and Government
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/african_studies_review/v048/48.3alapiki.pdf
Abstract:This paper seeks to demonstrate how the fissiparous tendencies bearing on the Nigerian national polity make the policy of using state creation to achieve national integration a failed strategy. It outlines the official rationale and criteria for state creation in Nigeria, and assesses the prospects for success. It shows how the outcomes of state creation exercises in Nigeria have failed to assuage the very forces that instigate new state demands. It contends that the prospects for national integration and local autonomy depend on the emergence of a purposeful national leadership and proper political restructuring of the federation designed to generate a national image that has more appeal than the regional ones. Bibliogr., note, sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]
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