Abstract
The two authors who have captured the essential aspect of the armed forces in African nations in the foregoing statements are sociology Professor T. O. Odetola of Obafemi Awolowo University (the former University of Ife) at Ife, Nigeria, and J. M. Lee, a specialist on African affairs. For many years, the erroneous assumption, as Odetola has pointed out, was that “membership in a heterogeneous army necessarily fosters a ‘national outlook,’ [but] evidence shows that recruitment to African armies is so skewed that it becomes difficult to see the military as diminishing ethnic rivalry.”1
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