The Politics of Tradition Continuity and Change in Northern Nigeria, 1946-1966 [Hardcover]

Taking Northern Nigeria during the years 1946 to 1966 as an example, Professor Whitaker shows how modern institutionsparliamentary representation, a cabinet system, popular suffrage, and political partieswere introduced and how they resulted not in a displacement of tradition but in an astute absorption by traditional forces.

Originally published in 1970.

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