| | This article deals with the role of organised interests in Nigerian democratisation. The wider study seeks to develop a general argument about the connections between the pursuit of group self-interest, the defence of organisational rights, and involvement in wider democratic struggles. The argument draws on the experiences of a range of Nigerian organisations during the 1980s and early 1990s, including the central labour body, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), one major industrial union (the textile workers' ), the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), one women's organisation - Women in Nigeria (WIN), and some civic and human rights groups. In this article, two organisations are used to illustrate the argument: the Academic Staff Union of the Universities (ASW) and the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) - the organisations of the 'scholars' . |
