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Regions Africa West Africa Nigeria

Nigeria

Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism

Insurgency and War in Nigeria: Regional Fracture and the Fight Against Boko Haram

Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria’s Missing Schoolgirls

Does West Africa Need a Single Currency?

The Giant of Africa Is Failing

Don’t Call Nigeria a Failed State

What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

Climate Change Doesn’t Have to Stoke Conflict

Nigeria’s Soldiers of Fortune: The Abacha and Obasanjo Years

Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria

The Deadliest Conflict You’ve Never Heard of

Can Nigeria Solve Its Energy Crisis?

Nigeria’s Troubling Counterinsurgency Strategy Against Boko Haram

How Nigeria’s Oil Industry Went Local

How Nigeria’s Boko Haram Crackdown Harms Local Economies

Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria

This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organized Crime

Nigeria’s Window of Opportunity

Muslims Talking Politics: Framing Islam, Democracy, and Law in Northern Nigeria

The Wives of Boko Haram

Nigeria’s Breaking Point

Nigeria’s Unbalanced Budget

Unbroken Boko Haram

Nigeria: A New History of a Turbulent Century

Dictators and Democracy in African Development: The Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria

After Boko Haram

Goodluck’s Run Out

Hope Springs in Nigeria

Good Luck, Jonathan

Africa's City on a Hill

Beating Boko Haram

Reforming Nigeria

Authority Stealing: Anti-corruption War and Democratic Politics in Post-military Nigeria

Unhealthy Practice

The End of Nigeria's Strike May Not Calm Oil Markets

To Battle Nigeria's Boko Haram, Put Down Your Guns

Judging Nigeria's Election Season

Nigeria on the Brink

Nigeria's Rigged Democracy

Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria

In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy

Oil in Nigeria: Conflict and Litigation between Oil Companies and Village Communities

Africa's Ailing Giant: Chaos Reigns in Nigeria

Oil and Socioeconomic Crisis in Nigeria: A Regional Perspective to the Nigerian Disease and the Rural Sector

The Impossible Necessity of Nigeria: A Struggle for Nationhood

Fractured History: Elite Shifts and Policy Changes in Nigeria

The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa

International Trade: Issues Regarding Imposition of an Oil Embargo Against Nigeria

Nigeria, Africa, And The United States: From Kennedy To Reagan

Isara: A Voyage Around "Essay."

The Nigerian State

Nigeria And The International Capitalist System

The Brutality of Nations

Africa: The Old and the Unexpected

Nigeria in Search of Democracy

Democracy in Nigeria

Nigeria: Africa's New Power

Elements of a Nigerian Peace

Essentials for Nigerian Survival

Nigeria Looks Ahead

How Deep the Split in West Africa?

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