Welcome to the newest African Arguments blog: The Nigeria Forum. We are launching this blog several months in advance of the Nigerian general election in February 2015, and continuing it after the p0lls, in order analyse the context of Nigeria's main political event in the next year. We aim to commission and publish at least one new article per week exclusive to African Arguments. We hope that The Nigeria Forum will become a place for discussion and exchange of ideas on the key issues in contemporary Nigerian politics. This project is supported by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Nigeria 2015: high stakes Nigeria exhibits many characteristics redolent of many African states. These include: High economic growth rates over the past 10 years. A rapidly expanding, entrepreneurial and resourceful population boasting much talent. A high level of poverty. Extreme inequality. Dysfunctional public institutions. A political culture with a tendency towards violence. Corruption within both public and private sectors. Economic over-reliance on a single commodity (oil). Nigeria has both the biggest population and largest economy of any African country. It is probably the most important country in a continent currently experiencing a period of rapid, perhaps unprecedented change. Along [...]
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