From
| Author(s) | |
|---|---|
| Publisher | |
| Publication Year |
The Militarization of Nigerian Society
From: Colonial Systems of Control
$5.00
This chapter makes a demand not only on Nigeria’s political and civil society leaders but also on the international community, particularly policy-makers in Europe and the United States currently involved in the important work of rolling back military dictatorship, civil war, and poverty in Africa. If there is one thing that this chapter makes clear, it is that bad economics breeds poverty, and mass poverty in turn invites military dictatorship.
Contributors
Biko Agozino
Biko Agozino is a professor of sociology, Coordinator of the Criminology Unit and the Acting Head of Behavioral Sciences at The Univerisity of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. His teaching and research interests include crime and social order, research methods, theoretical criminology, race-class-gender articulation, sociology, social statistics, law and popular culture, and comparative justice systems. His books include: Black Women and the Criminal Justice System (1997), Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Migration Research (edited, 2000); Nigeria: Democratising a Militarised Civil Society (coauthored, 2001); Counter-Colonial Criminology (2003); and Pan African Issues in Crime and Justice (coedited, 2004). He was educated at the University of Edinburgh (PhD), the University of Cambridge (MPhil), and the University of Calabar (BSc). He is the series editor for the Ashgate Publishers Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender, and Class Relations and the editor-in-chief of the African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies.Unyierie Idem holds an award-winning Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Edinburgh University, Scotland; an MA in French from the University of Calabar, Nigeria; and a First Class Honours MA in French from the University of Calabar, Nigeria.
