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Resource Mobilization for NGOs in the Developing World: Current and Emerging Practices

The longevity and productivity of every NGO hinges on its capacity to effectively mobilize resources for its cause. Based on extensive research and years of professional practice, this book examines critically the issues and challenges of existing practices for fundraising by NGOs in the developing world and the pitfalls involved in towing the traditional model withou

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Nigeria without Nigerians? Boko Haram and the Crisis in Nigeria's Nation-Building Project

Boko Haram has been one of the most important sources of security challenges facing the Nigerian government since the group became radicalised in 2009 following a government clampdown and eventual death of their founder Mohamed Yusuf.  The book critically interrogates the various explanatory theses for the emergence and radicalisation of the group and concludes t

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Negotiating the Nigeria-Nation: Essays on State, Governance and Development

In this compendium of essays, Dr Jideofor Adibe discusses the issues around which contestations for state power and Nigeria’s quest for development revolve and also interrogates the various desiderata for resolving those issues.  The essays, mostly from the author’s weekly column in two leading newspapers in Nigeria, also cover issues of &lsqu

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Topical issues in Nigeria's political development

Nigerians love to debate. Even under  colonial rule, the authorities  realised that Nigerians could not be repressed and that they always expressed their views on topical issues of development.  The topical issues that have driven Nigeria’s political economy include Constitution and Constitutionalism, Democracy, the National Question,  Civil-

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Nigeria: Essays in Governance and Society

Nigeria has experienced different forms of crises and instability since she  became independent on October 1 1960. The country has also been under different forms of rule - from the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy in the First Republic (1960-1966),to prolonged periods of military rule (1966-1979, 1983-1999) to  a presidential system of governan

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Transnationalism and Civic Engagement: Diasporic Formation and Mobilization in Denmark and the UAE

The question of population migration and Diaspora transnationalism in the age of globalization is an area of social sciences deserving much more attention than it has received. This book deals with the advent of new ideological currents based on an assumed “Clash of Civilizations” increasingly popular in social, economic and political discourses.  

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The Politics and Economics of Removing Subsidies on Petroleum Products

Though the history of hikes in petroleum prices began in 1973 when the military government of Gen. Yakubu Gowon increased the price of petrol to 9 kobo per litre from the  equivalent of 8.8 kobo that had prevailed before then, the politics and economics of removal of subsidies on premium petroleum products entered into the national lexicon in 1986 when the milita

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Nigeria and the crisis of the nation-state: Agenda for national consensus

In this rich compilation, Emeka Nwosu takes the reader to a journey of the issues that have helped to shape discourses on various aspects of the Nigerian state and society. The articles, originally published in his weekly column in the premier Nigerian daily newspaper, ThisDay, not only show his perspectives on  these issues when they were written but also reveal

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Writing the Afro-Hispanic: Essays on Africa and Africans in the Spanish Caribbean

The impact of the African Diaspora in Spanish America is far greater than is understood or acknowledged in the English speaking world. Connected initially to the Spanish-Caribbean through trans-Atlantic slavery, Africa is so deeply ingrained in the biology and culture of these countries that, in the words of the Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, it would requi

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Getting Zambia to Work

Getting  Zambia to Work examines some critical issues in Zambia’s recent history, including the country’s unhealthy dependency on ‘foreign largess’ and their implications for national self-assertion, social self-reliance and sustainable development. The book suggests practical and simple ways in which Zambia could lift itself out of i

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