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Self-determination group or extra-legal governance agency? The multifaceted nature of the Oodua people's congress in Nigeria
✍ Scribed by Yvan Guichaoua
- Book ID
- 102347804
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 157 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0954-1748
- DOI
- 10.1002/jid.1569
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The paper contributes to the understanding of the origins of violent non‐legal organisations in West Africa by focusing on the emergence and the evolution of the Oodua People's Congress (OPC), a movement aiming at defending the interests of the Yoruba people in Nigeria. It discusses the causes of its gradual transformation from a self‐determination group ready to use political violence into an agency of local extra‐legal governance tolerated by official federal authorities. This evolution may reflect the normalisation of the OPC in Nigeria's weak democracy. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.