Authors : Dipo Kolawole
Abstract: The Nigerian state has been fundamentally affected by two historical phenomena, colonial rule and military rule. Whereas colonial rule ended about forty-five years ago at the attainment of independence, military rule as a post-colonial instrument of conquest does not seem to have a perceivable abatement. This is in spite of the return to another civil rule since 1999. Indeed, the military conquest has reemerged in the involvement of ex-military rulers in politics. This study presents the dilemma of a post-colonial state coping with contradictory factors of development and democracy.
Dipo Kolawole , 2005. Colonial and Military Rules in Nigeria: A Symmetrical Relationship . Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences, 3: 863-867.