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The United states and the Decolonization process in Nigeria

By:

Lawal, Kunle

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lagos State University press; 1996Description: 92ISBN:

978-2623-5-G

Subject(s):

Non-Fiction

Summary: The study has attempted to highlight how the warm Anglo-Saxon understanding during and after the second world war translated, in Africa generally and Nigeria in particular, into a policy of anti-radicalism and anti-communism in the late 1940's and early 1950's. as independence stood in the horizon in the 1950's, the United States embarked (With the consent and understanding of the british colonial power) upon a conscious cultivation of Nigeria's inheritance elit as well as injection of educational, technical and cultural assistance to the emergent nation with the twin aim of strnghtenning the institutions and appurtenances of liberal democracy as well as discouraging nationalist politicians for looking to the soviet Bloc for assistance.

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The study has attempted to highlight how the warm Anglo-Saxon understanding during and after the second world war translated, in Africa generally and Nigeria in particular, into a policy of anti-radicalism and anti-communism in the late 1940's and early 1950's. as independence stood in the horizon in the 1950's, the United States embarked (With the consent and understanding of the british colonial power) upon a conscious cultivation of Nigeria's inheritance elit as well as injection of educational, technical and cultural assistance to the emergent nation with the twin aim of strnghtenning the institutions and appurtenances of liberal democracy as well as discouraging nationalist politicians for looking to the soviet Bloc for assistance.

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