USA Africa Dialogue Series - Article: How Has Nigeria’s Ruling Class Been Able To Periodically Renew Itself........?

By Edwin Madunagu

My most recent published article, "Recalling Tai Solarin's prediction", which appeared in the first week of this month, ended with a series of questions. I reproduce four of them that are most relevant to this sequel: "Why is it that despite the Nigerian Left's insistence, at least since 1979, on the inevitability and irreducibility of a Revolutionary Party, the party has not emerged? Why should we find ourselves repeating the same theses and propositions after every bloody and farcical display called "election"? How has Nigeria's ruling class been able to periodically renew itself, assume new organizational forms and continue its rule? Put differently, why has it not been possible to overthrow Nigeria's ruling capitalist class, as a class, or dislodge it as the dominant political force?"...................

https://chidioparareports.blogspot.com/2019/12/article-how-has-nigerias-ruling-class.html

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Chidi Anthony Opara is a "Life Time Achievement" Awardee, Registered Freight Forwarder, Professional Fellow Of Institute Of Information Managerment, Africa, Poet and Publisher of PublicInformationProjects

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