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Browsing Department of Political Science by Author "Akinboye, S.O."

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    Africa's Debt Crisis: Perspectives on Nigeria's Escape from External Debt Trap
    (2010) Akinboye, S.O.
    In sharp contrast with the image of an "oil-rich" country, Nigeria is paradoxically a heavily indebted poor country. While the country's oil production reached 2.5 million barrels per day in 2004, its total external debt stock at the end of 2004 was estimated at $35.9 billion. The debt crisis has been aggravated by the burden of debt servicing, which has absorbed the nation's budgetary and foreign exchange resources with deleterious impact on the critical sectors of the economy. The paper critically examines Nigeria's external debt profile and efforts toward its alleviation. It argues that the debt burden constitutes a major constraint to the revitalization of the nation's economy, and that its alleviation is imperative for sustainable growth and development.
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    A Democratic Developmental State in Post-Authoritarian Nigeria? Issues and Prospects
    (2018) Basiru, A.; Akinboye, S.O.
    This article, deploying data from documentary sources,examines issues in Nigeria’s democratization project and the prospect of a Democratic Developmental State (DDS) in post-authoritarian Nigeria. Drawing from the radical theory of the state, it notes that an autonomous state is pivotal to a successful DDS in the global South. In the light of this and based on the review of Nigeria’s development and democratization history, the article argues and concludes that, given the non-autonomous character of the Nigerian state and the politics that it engenders, the prospects of a DDS in Nigeria in the nearest future are rather slim.
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    It Is Not Yet ‘Uhuru’: Overcoming the Challenges of Citizenship and Nationality Questions in Post-Separation Sudan and South Sudan
    (2016) Ottoh, F.O.; Akinboye, S.O.
    This paper focuses on the nationality and citizenship crisis in post-separation Sudan. The paper argues that the unresolved issues in the agreement, especially the issue of nationality and citizenship are serious threats to the stability of the new state of South Sudan. Both North Sudan and South Sudan have demonstrated a lack of political will to resolve the nationality and citizenship problem. This explains why they were not able to adopt a common legal framework that will help to address the age-long problem instead of each adopting new nationality laws. The paper adopts the historical and institutional-legalistic approach in the discourse to situate the problem. It argues therefore, that the citizenship problem will continue in a system that is stratifed along ethnic/racial and religious lines as epitomized in Sudan. We conclude that it is the resolution of outstanding issues of nationality and citizenship question that will help to sharpen the pattern of state-ethnic relations in the separated countries of north and south Sudan. With independence granted to Southern Sudan, the crisis of citizenship remains both in the north and the south.
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    Nigeria and South Africa: Collaboration or competition?
    (2017) Odubajo, T.; Akinboye, S.O.
    This article focuses on the dynamics of the relationship between Nigeria and South Africa, arguably the two most prominent states on the African continent. Each of the two states continues to make attempts at extending its hegemony beyond its respective sub-region to emerge as Africa’s foremost state. These efforts are not pursued in isolation, but affect their bilateral relations and are tied to the guiding principles of the national interest. Through data gathered from secondary sources, we analyse the trajectory of the relationship between Nigeria and South Africa, from the intensely politically contentious to the strongest of warm relations. In the final analysis, the article concludes that collaboration and competition are critical variables in the conduct of inter-state relations. Nigeria and South Africa have an historic opportunity to collaborate in the current period, in order to promote the general interest of the African continent in the international system. Will their respective pursuit of their own national interests encourage, or derail, this role?
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    Nigeria's transition to democracy: Prospects for consolidation
    (African Institute of South Africa, 2001) Akinboye, S.O.
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    Where are the Peasants? A discourse on the role of Civil Society as Social Movement in the Post-Independence Nigeria
    (2016) Akinboye, S.O.; Ottoh, F.O.
    This paper aims to create awareness on the importance of peasants forming a synergy with civil society organizations in the struggle for political and economic liberation in Nigeria. The paper argues that in recent time peasants have remained docile and largely gone out of existence in the post independence struggle for democratic governance. They are no longer involved in the social protest rather they alienated themselves. The inherited wisdom of peasants‟ non-involvement in the contestation for power runs counter-productive to the construction of a culture of opposition geared towards positive change. The class-cultural theory of social movements helps in the interpretation of complex relationships between civil society on one hand and the peasants on the other hand. The method employed in this analysis is qualitative based on secondary data. The study is limited to post-independence democratization struggle and their non-involvement in the protest against unfavourable economic policies right from the military regimes and democratic era. The paper‟s aim is to raise the political consciousness among the peasants to engage actively in the struggle for political and economic liberation. The significance of this is that a synergy would be established between peasants in the rural areas and the organized civil society in the urban areas. It concludes that the peasants as social category and important political actors should be involved in subterranean protests with the civil society organizations. Thus, peasants should forge a link with other organized civil society groups in urban areas for the struggle for better political and economic conditions and system.