Oil, politics and violence Nigeria's military coup culture (1966-1976) /
"An insider traces the details of hope and ambition gone wrong in the Giant of Africa, Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. When it gained independence from Britain in 1960, hopes were high that, with mineral wealth and over 140 million people, the most educated workforce in Africa, Ni...
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New York :
Algora Pub.,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- The pre-coup days: politics and crisis
- The Nigerian army: the way things were
- Soldiers and politics
- Enter "the five majors"
- From civilian to military rule: history in the making
- A new type of government
- The army implodes
- The July rematch
- Mutineers in power
- The killing continues
- Legacy of the 1966 coups
- Aburi: the "Sovereign National Conference" that got away
- Murtala Muhammed: human tempest
- The post war years: civil and military discontent
- Another army plot: another military government
- Friday the 13th: the watershed coup of 1976
- Crime and punishment.