Chapter 22b

How far do the pressures from ethnopolitics, religion, poverty and inequality make Nigeria ungovernable by a western-style liberal democracy?
How do you explain the fact that although Nigeria and Saudi Arabia can both be described as rentier states, and both have a significant Islamic population, there are major political differences.
How might Nigeria's internal political weaknesses and problems compromise her regional leadership role?
Compare and contrast Nigeria and South Africa's leadership positions in their respective regions and in Africa as a whole.
Does Nigeria's political and military engagement with the wider West African region provide a model for other developing regions to become more self-reliant as regions in managing their internal affairs?
What lessons for nation-building do we learn from Nigeria's experience?
Why has Nigeria failed to establish a tradition of holding completely free and fair elections?
What are the main governance weaknesses in Nigeria and how could they be reduced or overcome?
What features of politics in Nigeria cannot be explained by reference to its position as a rentier state?
Who really governs Nigeria?
What is the relationship between longstanding ethnic rivalries and the more recent growing religious animosities in Nigerian politics?
Why has Nigeria's 'vibrant' civil society not contributed more to the securing of democracy in Nigeria?

Oxford University Press, Online Resource Centre, Chapter 22b.