Policing and the Limits of the Political Imagination in Postcolonial Nigeria

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ID4824697
AutoresSamuel Fury Childs Daly (0000-0002-5475-1534)
Ano2020
Volume2020
Fascículo137
Páginas193-198
Data de publicação2020-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRadical History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/01636545-8092858
OpenAlexW3033162387
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas14

Nigeria's police forces are famously ineffective and unpopular. Police agencies carry the dual stigma of having colonial origins and close connections to the military dictatorships that ruled Nigeria in its first forty years of independence. Despite their poor reputation, there is little political will to reform policing and virtually none to abolish it. This piece traces how the police are embedded in Nigerian society and politics, in order to understand why widespread dislike of a police force does not necessarily lead to calls for its dissolution

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