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Explaining Democratic Failure in Nigeria - Class, Ethnicity and Democracy in Nigeria: the failure of the First Republic by Larry Diamond Basingstoke and London, Macmillan, 1988. Pp. xiv+376. £35.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Rotimi T. Suberu
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan

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