Social Movements and Rights Claims: The Case of Action Groups in the Niger Delta

Citizenship and social movements: Perspectives from the global South

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 35-59

  Osaghae, Eghosa E ^a  

^a IGBINEDION UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

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