Nigeria in World Politics: Contemporary Calculations and Constraints

Shaw, Timothy M.

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“…This is obviously true of Nigeria, the focus of this article, which since oil assumed the central role in the economy, displacing agriculture and the solid minerals sector, did not only have its foreign policy posture of the 1960s transformed but assumed the role of the Africa’s spokesperson in the global system (see Herskovits, 1978; Otubanjo, 1989). Putting this in perspective, Shaw (1984: 208) posits that ‘almost overnight, Nigeria’s image underwent a transformation from a sleeping giant to one of an OPEC major’. To be sure, Shaw’s position above about Nigeria as an emergent power house in Africa, courtesy of its abundant oil resources and membership of OPEC, typifies the great expectations that people, especially informed ones, tend to have about resource-rich countries not minding the fact that beyond mineral resources is their governance and management (Watts, 2004).…”

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Nigeria’s Regional Hegemonic Conundrum: The Oil Connection

Basiru

Salawu²,

Arogundade

et al. 2020

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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This article, using documentary analysis, adopts a fresh perspective to understanding why Nigeria, in spite of its exceptional potentials, has not attained hegemonic pre-eminence in Africa. Specifically, it seeks to decipher the central driver of the country’s hegemonic conundrum. It notes and argues that although many endogenous factors, alone or in combination, could have worked and are still at work to undercut Nigeria’s quest for regional hegemony, the central factor is the oil-induced rentier political economy which has not only marginalized the indigenous productive sector, but has also institutionalized rentier culture that had tended to feed into the country’s foreign policy processes and, by extension, diminished its stature in the comity of nations. It concludes that in as much as oil remains the central locus and vertebra of the country’s economy, and the country continues to be presided over by leaders who lack the willpower to strategically diversify the economy and institute effective framework for governing the oil sector, the country’s quest for hegemonic pre-eminence in West Africa is more likely to remain a cherished dream.

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Section: Oil Corruption and Nigeria’s Quest For Regional Hegemonymentioning

confidence: 99%