Reading Nigeria's Political History

While not exhaustive, the texts in this reading list on Nigeria's political history expand on how Nigerian politics arrived at what it is today. For a long time, the political environment in Nigeria has featured severe contestations among the country’s diverse ethnic groups. This legacy of contestations has created a multi-layered and multi-faceted political structure that is peculiar to Nigeria. In Nigeria, politics is interspersed by ethnicity, making it a collective means to rights and o

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