Oil, politics and violence Nigeria's military coup culture (1966-1976) /

Main Author: Siollun, Max.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Algora Pub., c2009.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10476770
Table of Contents:
  • The pre-coup days: politics and crisis
  • The Nigerian army: the way things were
  • Soldiers and politics
  • Enter "the five majors"
  • From civilian to military rule: history in the making
  • A new type of government
  • The army implodes
  • The July rematch
  • Mutineers in power
  • The killing continues
  • Legacy of the 1966 coups
  • Aburi: the "Sovereign National Conference" that got away
  • Murtala Muhammed: human tempest
  • The post war years: civil and military discontent
  • Another army plot: another military government
  • Friday the 13th: the watershed coup of 1976
  • Crime and punishment.