1st Edition
President and Power in Nigeria The Life of Shehu Shagari
By David Williams
Copyright 1982
324 Pages
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Routledge
250 Pages
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Routledge
250 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1982. This is the biography of Alhaji Shehu Shagari of Nigeria, Africa's most populous state and the world's third biggest democracy. He was elected in 1979, against four opponents, in the election which signified the peaceful end of thirteen and a half years of military rule. Alhaji Shehu was the first boy from Shagari, founded in what is now Sokoto State by his ancestors 170... Read more
Introduction 1 A Place Called Shagari 2 Pupil and Teacher 3 Call to Politics 4 In Sir Abubakar's Government 5 Return to Sokoto 6 Grass Roots Again 7 Back to the Centre 8 Politics No More? 9 Return to Politics 10 The Path to the Presidency 11 President of All Nigeria 12 Nigeria and the World 13 Towards Economic Freedom? 14 Religion for Rulers 15 A President at Work; Postscript: A New Beginning?
Biography
David Williams was editor of the weekly W esc Africa from 1949 to 1978. He is now consultant to the fortnightly NigeriaNewsleccer,and a director of West Africa Publishing Company. An Oxford graduate, he served with West Africans in Ethiopia in the I 939-45 war.
