Introduction -- Delinking: The Action Group and the Pursuit of Decolonization -- Disorder: National Incoherence and Foreign Relations -- Development: The Politics of Farm Settlements -- Democracy: The Western Region Crisis and the Coker Inquiry -- Decentered: The Sardauna, the NPC, and Relations with the Middle East -- Conclusion
Summary
"Even before it gained independence in 1960, the process of nation-building in Nigeria was plagued by regional, ethnic, and class conflict. Decolonizing Independence examines how leading figures of what would become Nigeria's First Republic (1963-1966) formed relations with Israel to help navigate the challenges of statecraft and development"-- Provided by publisher
