Religion and Political Turbulence in Nigeria

The Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 115-136

  Ibrahim, Jibrin ^a  

^a AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITICAL CONFLICT; RELIGION;

NIGERIA;

EID: 0026330588     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: 14697777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X00020760     Document Type: Article

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2. Émile Durkheim, Les Règles de la méthode sociologique (Paris, 1986), pp. 5–13.
3. Christian Coulon, ‘Les Itineraires politiques de l'Islarn au Nord Nigeria’, in Jean-François Bayart (ed.), Les Mediations religieuses en Afrique noire (Paris, 1991).
4. Peter Ekeh, ‘Colonialism and Social Structure’, Inaugural Lecture, University of Ibadan, 1983, p. 11.
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14. African Guardian (Lagos), 15 May 1988, p. 16.
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16. Abdorrahman Doi, Islam in Nigeria (Zaria, 1984), p. 242. For information about pagan practices in Hausa and Yoruba Islamic communities, see pp. 93–5 and 236–42.
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35. Coulon, pp. 22-32.
36. See also Sabo Bako's review of Usman's book, ‘The Fallacy of the Manipulation Thesis’, Zaria, 1987.
37. Cited in Sule Bello, ‘State and Economy in Kano: a study in colonial domination’, Ph.D. dissertation, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1982, p. 103.
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42. For an excellent analysis of religious tolerance and non-politicisation of religion in Yorubaland, see David Laitin, ‘Hegemony and Religious Conflict’, American Political Science Association, Denver, Colorado, 1982.
43. For details, see Jibrin Ibrahim, ‘Les Uniformes des lycéennes nigériennes’ in Politique africaine, 29, May 1988, pp. 101-104.
44. Newswatch, 7 May 1990.
45. Newbreed (Lagos), 14 May 1990.
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