Rethinking security in Nigeria
Subtitle: conceptual issues in the quest for social order and national integration
By: edited by Dapo Adelugba & Philip Ogo Ujomu.
Contributors: Adelugba, Dapọ.; Ujomu, Philip Ogo.; Codesria.
Series: Codesria book series
Publisher: Codesria
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dakar
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9782869782112
Subjects: National security -- Nigeria -- Philosophy; Internal security -- Nigeria -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a preface to the understanding of the aesthetic and ethical imperatives for viable national security in the post-colonial African state / Dapo Adelugba; title: The bounds of security theorising: envisioning discursive inputs for the rectification of a post-colonial situation / Philip Ogo Ujomu; title: An aesthetic theorising of the challenge of national security in the post-colonial context / Philip Ogo Ujomu and Dapo Adelugba; title: Rethinking traditional security in Africa: the reconstruction of the cosmological foundations of security / Dapo Adelugba; title: Cultural dimensions of the national security problem / Olusegun Oladiran and Irene Omolola Adadevoh; title: The gender dimensions of the national security and human security problematic: core theoretical, conceptual and historical issues / Irene Omolola Adadevoh; title: Rethinking ethical security in the light of European institutional security and integration strategies: the quest for methodological convergence / Aduke G. Adebayo.