Military Governance and Civil War: Ethnic Hegemony as a Constructive Factor in Nigeria

Military Governance and Civil War: Ethnic Hegemony as a Constructive Factor in Nigeria

Ojo John Sunday

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Ethnic consideration has been comprehensively substantiated as a major trait in determining the political sustainability in Nigeria. Historically, the British overlord in 1914 saw forceful nuptials as a political necessity to safeguard and consolidate divergence ethnic pluralism, hypothesizing the dawn of ethnic consciousness in Nigerian political life. Ethnicity has been exploited as an instrument of oppression, therefore, becomes a time bomb lingering to explode in Nigerian political landscape. Military intervention in politics as an extra-legal and conspiratorial subjugation of government has been conventionally reprimanded as an aberration, despite their forbidden operational values in political engagements, various countries of the world such as Nigeria, France, Ghana, Uganda, Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Thailand, Iraq, Libya, Algeria, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Russia, just to mention a few, have experienced military skyjacking of political power at one time or the other, therefore, this paper, discusses how ethnicity influences military takeover and civil war in Nigeria. Methodology espoused in carrying out this study was heavily derived from both secondary sources and insightful empirical observation of military trends in Nigeria.

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Ojo John Sunday. 2014. \u201cMilitary Governance and Civil War: Ethnic Hegemony as a Constructive Factor in Nigeria\u201d. Global Journal of Human-Social Science - F: Political Science GJHSS-F Volume 14 (GJHSS Volume 14 Issue F4): .

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Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/GJHSS

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Biafra civil war ethnicity Governance military Nigeria Politics

Submission ReceivedDecember 14, 2013
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Subject: Global Journal of Human-Social Science - F: Political Science

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