Obasanjo, Nigeria and the world /
Olusegun Obasanjo was Nigeria's military head of state (1976-9) and President (1999-2007). His career is made the focus for a history of Nigeria's first fifty years of independence (1960-2010) and of African continental affairs during the same period (Obasanjo having been an active opponen...
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Suffolk :
Boydell & Brewer,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- A man of controversy
- pt. 1. Making a career (1937-70). Yoruba boy
- Nigerian soldier
- Coups and civil war
- pt. 2. Military rule (1970-9). Chance and power
- State-directed development
- African liberation
- Return to civilian rule
- pt. 3. Private citizen (1979-99)
- The farmer
- The author
- The statesman
- The politician
- The prisoner
- The candidate
- pt. 4. The first presidential term (1999-2003). Containing conflict
- Salvaging the economy
- Restoring international relationships
- President and politicians
- Re-election
- pt. 5. The second presidential term (2003-7). The imperious presidency
- Economic reform
- Africa's elder statesman
- Managing the succession
- Retirement.
