What is it about?
Large sections of society are longing for the end of Muhammadu Buhari's disappointing presidency, who will no longer be allowed to run in the 2024 elections when his second term ends. Under his weak leadership Africa’s most populous country and leading oil and gas producer, is struggling to keep the “Nigerian system” alive. It is based on an intricate power structure between the president and his government, the powerful governors of the 36 federal states and the thousands of wealthy elites. The ultimate goal however, is to redistribute Nigeria’s immense wealth among themselves.
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Why is it important?
The destiny of the West African region is closely related to the political and socioeconomic situation in Africa's most populous country. The precarious security situation triggered by jihadists and bandits in Northern Nigeria, organised crime in most federal states, oil theft in the oil producing south of the country, ethnic Igbo militias fighting for an independent Biafra and the resilience of large parts of the society and the socioeconomic, in particular digital creativity, fine arts and literature, have an impact on West Africa and to some extent on Africa at large.
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Writing this article was a challenge. In Nigeria, too many issues and developments are happening at the same time at different political and socio-economic levels that at first glance appear to have little in common. In fact, the realtiy is quite different and it was a rewarding task to work out Nigeria's complexity and to introduce interested readers to this complexity.
Heinrich Bergstresser
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This page is a summary of: Nigeria, September 2022, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004519572_017.
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