Nigerian Political Parties: Power in an Emergent African Nation (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Sklar, Richard L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691651639 ISBN 13: 9780691651637

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2016

Synopsis

The development of political parties in Nigeria during the terminal phase of British colonial rule.

Originally published in 1963.

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Richard L. Sklar is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was founding co-chair of the interdepartmental degree program in Development Studies. He is a past president of the African Studies Association (U.S.A.) and has taught at severa universities in Africa, including the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, the University of Zambia, and, as a Fulbright Professor, the University of Zimbabwe. IN addition to Nigerian Political Parties, originally published in 1963 and republished in Nigeria in 1983, his published works include Corporate Power in an African State (Zambia), 1975; African Crisis Areas and U.S. Foreign Policy (coedited, 1985); Postimperialism and World Politics (coedited 1999); African Politics in Postimperial Times: The Essays of Richard L. Sklar (edited by Toyin Falola, 2002), published by Africa World Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0691651639
• ISBN 13: 9780691651637
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 592