NIGERIA: DEMOCRACY WITHOUT DEVELOPMENT, how to fix it

197pp., paperback, Lagos, 2020

Omano Edigheji focuses on the lack of an ideology of development nationalism, the prevalence of politics without principles, weak institutions and the capture of the state to explain why, in twenty years of electoral democracy, poverty, inequality, unemployment and insecurity have increased in Nigeria, and argues for a democratic developmental state.

"By encouraging its elites to change their ideological orientation, and pointing to the need to develop the state's structural capabilities, Edigheji shows us how Nigeria can - and should - become a democratic developmental state." Professor Jonathon Moses, Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim

Political economist Omano Edigheji is Special Adviser, Research and Documentation to Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai of Kaduna State.