Author: Diamond, Larry Jay
Title: Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria : The Failure of the First Republic
Description: Syracuse [NY], Syracuse University Press, (1988). orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, xiii,376 pp.. Textual maps & tables.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Origins of Crisis; Conspiracy of Optimism: Nigeria at Independence; Crisis & Conflict in the Western Region, 1962-63; The Census Crisis, 1963-64; The 1964 General Strike; The 1964 Federal Election Crisis;The Western Election Crisis & the National Crisis of Confidence, 1965; Conclusion: Why the First Republic Failed.

Keywords: African Political History, Nigeria, West Africa, First Republic, Sociology, Ethnic Politics, Ethnicity, ,