Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria

1. Introduction: Minorities and the National Question in Nigeria.- I. Minorities, Colonialism and Decolonization.- 2. Decolonization and the Minority Question in Nigeria: The Willink Commission Revisited.- 3. Historicizing Ethnic Groups' Movements and State Creation in Nigeria, 1947-1967.- 4. Minority Groups: Bridgeheads in Nigerian Politics, 1950s - 1966.- II. Minorities and Postcolonial Politics.- 5. The Owegbe Cult: Political and Ethnic Rivalries in Early Post-Colonial Benin City.- 6. Midwest Region's Non-Igbo Minorities Responses to Biafran Occupation and Federal Liberation in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970.- 7. Ethnicity, War and Military Politics in Nigeria.- III. Minorities and Contemporary Nation-Building.- 8. Willink's Report, Niger Delta Region and the Nigerian State Fifty Years After: Any Hope for the Minority?.- 9. National Integration, Citizenship, Political Participation and Democratic Stability in Nigeria.- 10. Ethnic Minorities and the Quest for National Integration in Nigeria: Federalism and State Creation to the Rescue.- 11. Religious Referent Power and Ethnic Militias in Nigeria: The Imperative for PaxNigeriana