Abstract
Nigerian Elite Consolidation and African Elite Theories
Highlights
A decade and a half after inter-elite conflict brought down Nigeria's First Repu blic, intra-elite collaboration has succeeded in transforming the subsequent political sy stem from a conventional military regime into Africa's most fully articulated liberal de mocracy
The Nigerian dominant classes have evolved from a fractious, ethno-centred and self-seeking series of groupings into a relatively cohesive, autonomous and self-confident stratum capable of regulating its internecine conflicts while pursuing its collective interests as against the interests of other social strata. These developments, set against a background of ethno-nationalism, civil war, a burgeoning economy based on oil revenues, and intensive political centralisation, make Nigeria Black Africa's most intricate socio-economic formation
I have already made an initial attempt in this direction: »Political Economy, Political Class and Political Sy stem in Recivilianized Nigeria« Boston University, Walter Rodney African Studies Seminar, Working Paper '" 47, 1 98 1, which addmitedly wants for reliable, hard empirical data on income distribution and class compo sition
Summary
A decade and a half after inter-elite conflict brought down Nigeria's First Repu blic, intra-elite collaboration has succeeded in transforming the subsequent political sy stem from a conventional military regime into Africa's most fully articulated liberal de mocracy.
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