Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria

1. Introduction: Minorities and the National Question in Nigeria
I. Minorities, Colonialism and Decolonization
2. Decolonization and the Minority Question in Nigeria: The Willink Commission Revisited
3. Historicizing Ethnic Groups' Movements and State Creation in Nigeria, 1947-1967
4. Minority Groups: Bridgeheads in Nigerian Politics, 1950s - 1966

II. Minorities and Postcolonial Politics

5. The Owegbe Cult: Political and Ethnic Rivalries in Early Post-Colonial Benin City

6. Midwest Region's Non-Igbo Minorities Responses to Biafran Occupation and Federal Liberation in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970

7. Ethnicity, War and Military Politics in Nigeria

III. Minorities and Contemporary Nation-Building

8. Willink's Report, Niger Delta Region and the Nigerian State Fifty Years After: Any Hope for the Minority?

9. National Integration, Citizenship, Political Participation and Democratic Stability in Nigeria

10. Ethnic Minorities and the Quest for National Integration in Nigeria: Federalism and State Creation to the Rescue

11. Religious Referent Power and Ethnic Militias in Nigeria: The Imperative for PaxNigeriana