Modernization and the crisis of development in Africa : the Nigerian experience /
Dibua, Jeremiah I.,1956-
Aldershot : Ashgate,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-359) and index.
Introduction : "experts," Africanists and Africa's development crisis -- Weberian/modernist explanations of Africa's development crisis -- Postcolonial state, state-centrism and Africa's development -- Scope and organization -- Received wisdom and Africa's development trajectory -- Concept of modernization -- Modernization and the African state -- Modernization and Africa's development trajectory before the 1980s -- Economic crisis, neo-liberalism and the new modernization -- Bringing the state back into the development process -- Conclusion -- Colonial antecedents -- Imposition of colonial rule -- Indirect rule and the colonial policy of divide and rule -- Colonialism and the Nigerian state -- Colonialism and the Nigerian bourgeoisie -- Colonial reforms and consolidation of modernization, 1945-1960 -- Political reforms -- Economic reforms -- Conclusion -- Democratic experiments and sustainable democracy -- The first democratic experiment, 1960-1966 -- Mohammed/Obasanjo's transition to civil rule program, 1975-1979 -- The second democratic experiment, 1979-1983 -- Endless transition to civil rule, 1986-1998 -- "Credible" transition to civil rule, 1998-1999 -- The third democratic experiment and sustainable democracy -- Conclusion -- Technology transfer and the crisis of industrialization -- Problematic and dialectics of technology transfer -- Nigerian government's policy on technology transfer -- Import substitution industrialization and technology transfer -- Indigenous technology and industrialization -- Conclusion -- The dialectics of agricultural transformation -- Polemics of agricultural modernization -- Modernization and agricultural development trajectory -- Integrated rural development programs -- National accelerated food production program  -- Operation feed the nation -- Green revolution -- Directorate of food, roads, and rural infrastructure -- Agricultural development projects -- Large-scale capital-intensive farms -- River basin development authorities and large-scale irrigation schemes -- Conclusion -- Oil and economic development strategies, 1970-1986 -- The performance of oil -- Oil and public expenditure -- Oil and development planning -- Industrial development -- Economic nationalism and the indigenization policy -- Conclusion -- Economic crisis and structural adjustment program -- The structural adjustment program -- Devaluation and the economic crisis -- SAP and the manufacturing sector -- SAP, agriculture and rural development -- SAP and the social sector -- Nigerian women and SAP -- Conclusion -- State, youth and women movements, 1986-1998 -- The students' movement -- Pre-SAP students' movement -- The anti-SAP demonstrations -- Students and the transition to civil rule programs -- State-sponsored feminism -- Better life program -- Family support program -- Family economic advancement program -- Conclusion.