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Legitimacy and Governance: One More Year of Military Rule in Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Patrick Utomi
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When the phenomenon of military rule in Africa first attracted the attention of researchers, the thrust of inquiry was the explanation of the apparent anomaly of the coup d’etat. After years of effort, epitomized by Samuel Decalo’s work on Coups and Army Rule in Africa, a consensus seemed to have emerged that a general theory explaining military intervention could not be found. Scholarship thus turned its focus to the military as policymakers. This essay shall seek to do both — explain military intervention; and evaluate the performance of the military as policymakers. Nigeria, which is into its second epoch of military rule, provides an appropriate case study.

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African Issues , Volume 14 , 1985 , pp. 39 - 42
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1985 

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