Ebenezer B Obadare

Nigeria at Fifty: The Nation in Narration

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous and biggest democracy, celebrates her fiftieth year as an independent nation in October 2010. As the cliché states, ‘As Nigeria goes, so goes Africa’. This book frames the socio-historical and political trajectory of Nigeria while examining the many dimensions of the ...

The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa (Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies)

This volume brings together the most up to date analyses of civil society in Africa from the best scholars and researchers working on the subject. Being the first of its kind, it casts a panoramic look at the African continent, drawing out persisting, if often under-communicated, variations in regio...

Civic Agency in Africa

The recent eruption of popular protests across North Africa and the Middle East has reopened academic debate on the meaning and strategies of resistance in the 21st century. This book argues that Western notions of state and civil society provide only a limited understanding of how power and resista...

Encountering the Nigerian State (Africa Connects)

Thisvolume advances extant reflections on the state constituted as the Ur-Power in society, particularly in Africa.It analyzes how various agents within the Nigerian society'encounter' the state - ranging from the most routine form of contact to thespectacular. While many recent collections have reh...

Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria. Palgrave Macmillan. 2013.

Statism, Youth and Civic Imagination. A Critical Study of the National Youth Service Corps Programme in Nigeria (Codesria Monograph Series)

This study explores the service-citizenship nexus in Nigeria, using the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme as an empirical backdrop. It attempts to understand the relationship between civic service and citizenship on the one hand, and it examines the question as to whether youth service p...

Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria: Critical Interpretations

Celebrating the original publication of Richard Joseph's seminal book Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria, this state-of-the-field collection brings together leading scholars of Nigeria for a creative and robust engagement with the nation's experiments and experiences with liberal democracy....

Civil Society: Responses in Africa and the Middle Eas: An entry from Charles Scribner's Sons' <i>New Dictionary of the History of Ideas</i>

This digital document is an article from New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, brought to you by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. The length of the article is 2751 words. The article is delivered in HTM...