MODERNIZATION AND THE CRISIS OF DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE

"Jeremiah I. Dibua challenges prevailing notions of Africa's development crisis by drawing attention to the role of modernization as a way of understanding the nature and dynamics of the crisis and how to overcome the problem of underdevelopment. He specifically focuses on Nigeria as it exemplifies the crisis of underdevelopment in the continent and explores various theoretical and empirical issues involved in understanding the crisis, including state, class, gender and culture, often neglected in analysis. This is the first book to adopt such an approach and to develop a new framework for analyzing the development crisis and has potential for influencing the debate on the development dilemma of African and Third World societies."--BOOK JACKET.