Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria: Critical Interpretations

Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria - Critical Interpretations (Hardcover)

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Upson Professor of Government, Cornell University, USA "Adebanwi and Obadare, two of the leading lights of a new generation of African social scientists, have skillfully assembled an intergenerational mix of long-term students of politics, economy, and society in contemporary Nigeria that will offer readers considerable food for thought about the history of the organization and use of power and resources in Africa's most populous country.

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Epilogue: The logic and legacy of Prebendalism in Nigeria

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If so, how salient is it, and what new trajectories has it assumed against the backcloth of emergent class, ethno-regional, and religious realignments? What comparative insights are attainable from juxtaposing Nigeria's clientelistic model with processes in other African countries? One dimension of Joseph's analysis is the leading role of the then National Party of Nigeria NPN and the 'Kaduna Mafia' in the encrustation of what the author described as a 'Northern primacy'.

The NPN is no more, while the 'Kaduna Mafia' has all but receded into an even more shadowy existence.

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But is 'Northern primacy' in Nigerian politics a thing of the past? If not, how is that 'primacy' still enacted, and what is the role of the 'Kaduna Mafia' - or indeed other forms of 'embryonic state class' such as Afenifere, Ohaneze Ndigbo, Arewa Consultative Forum, and the various corporate subalternities challenging these classes - in the enactment? What is the role of oil a seemingly marginal presence in Joseph's analysis in the hardening of 'economic statism' in Nigeria, and what concrete connections are discernible between the structure of elite accumulation in Nigeria, and the opportunities that are part and parcel of neoliberal capitalism?

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