Contesting the Nigerian state
Subtitle: civil society and the contradictions of self-organization
By: edited by Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome
Contributors: Okome, Mojubaolu Olufunke
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781137324528
Subjects: Congresses; Politics and government; Civil society; Community development; Community organization
Notes: Papers from the conference (Un)civil Society--State Failure and the Contradictions of Self-Organisation in Nigeria, held May 14-17, 2005 in Lagos, Nigeria.
Table of contents: title: Contesting the Nigerian state: civil society and the contradictions of self-organization: introduction, concepts, and questions  -- Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome; title: Civil society and the challenges of development and nation building in the post colonial African state  -- Ademola Araoye; title: State failure and the contradictions of the public sphere, 1995-2005  -- Ayo Olukotun; title: Mobilizing for change: the press and the struggle for citizenship in democratic Nigeria  -- Wale Adebanwi; title: Gendered states: women's civil society activism in Nigerian politics  -- Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome; title: Feminist civil society organizations and democratization in Nigeria  -- Funmi Soetan; title: Women's associational life within traditional institutions in Yoruba states  -- Fatai A. Olasupo; title: Sexual struggles and democracy dividends  -- Ebenezer Obadare; title: Politics in a sub-formal economic setting: workplace investment co-operatives in southwestern Nigeria, c.1986-2011 -- Olufemi A. Akinola.