Integrationist and accommodationist measures in Nigeria's constitutional engineering: Successes and failures

Constitutional Design for Divided Societies: Integration or Accommodation?

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 233-257

  Boye Ejobowah, John ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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