The question to be answered in this paper is to what extent has the resource curse affected the Nigerian economy and government? Resource curse is a term that states the observation that countries that have a plethora of natural resources (e.g. oil, coal, diamonds etc.) usually have unstable political and economic structures (Sachs, 827). Nigeria is categorized as a nation that has succumb to the resource curse as it has an abundance of, and an overdependence on, oil, and a decreasing gross domestic
main point of this lesson? Write a thesis statement based on it. The underground railroad started, leading to the freedom of slaves but also stirng up problems between state laws and constitutional laws while moving forward with the abolishment movement. 2. Define “Underground Railroad.” The Underground railroad was a system created to help slaves escape to the north, or Canada, to be free. 3. Who called himself the “president” of the Underground Railroad? Levi Coffin was the self-proclaimed “president”
Post-colonial politics in Nigeria are born out of civil strife, and military dictatorships. A major impetus for political schism in Nigeria was the Biafran war. Following a military coup led by an Igbo man named Chukwuma Nzeogwu in 1966, there was an anti-Igbo riot in which 30,000 Igbos were killed and up to a million Igbos fled as refugees. As a reaction to the prejudice and violence that the Hausas and the Yoruba inflicted upon the Igbos, the Igbos seceded under the leadership of General Ujokwu