Many observers of Nigeria, the most populous Black Country in the world, believe she should have been a failed state. To the surprise of these political analysts and economists around the world, it is not. Since attaining independence in 1960, the country has at many junctures staggered close to dangerous precipices but for whatever reason, has not reached tipping point.
Why is Nigeria not yet a failed state?
This book explores the question.
The authors’ basic thesis is that Nigeria’s self-organising impulse is what has been preventing Nigeria from becoming a failed state, and is indeed behind whatever successes (and there are many) individual Nigerians and Nigeria are achieving.
In spite of the chaos and disorder in the nation’s public sector, the volatile nature of the economy, and societal stressors of various dimensions, Nigerians find impetus to organise life by themselves and for themselves. And this, they do, in every sphere of existence, at individual and group scale. To preorder go to Rovingheights.com
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