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Nigeria, despite being the African country of greatest strategic importance to the U.S., remains poorly understood. John Campbell explains why Nigeria is so imp

At the dawn of the third millennium, the most important form of political organization in the twentieth century, the nation-state, is coming under a great deal

This book challenges the long-held conventional wisdom that Africa is a post-colonial society of sovereign nation-states despite the outward attributes of state

Introduction --Part I. The struggle for independence and birth of a nation --Colonialism, racism, and modernity --Foreigners and nation building --Race and the