| Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 12 No. 33 Nigeria: Buhari Squeezes his Critics |
| Abstract of Briefing |
| Title: | Nigeria: Buhari Squeezes his Critics |
| Author: | John Maikwano |
| Location: | Vol.12 No.33 (Summer 1985), pp96-101 |
| Few if any tears were shed in Nigeria when, on 31 December 1983, military commanders swept aside the regime of President Shehu Shagari. Many Westerners regretted the failure of Nigeria's democratic experiment, and the consequent loss of civil and political liberties. There were few Nigerians then who did not dismiss these misgivings with cynicism, even contempt. |
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