Politics and Sharia in Northern Nigeria

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ID20064989
AuthorsSanusi Lamido Sanusi (corresponding author)
Year2007
Pages177-188
Publication date2007-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueIslam and Muslim Politics in Africa (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230607101_10
WikidataQ113528213
OpenAlexW2487501312
ISBN9780230607101
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited9

The election of civilian governments in the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1999 was preceded by a political campaign in which ethnic and religious identities and differences were a major component. For a substantial part of the nation's history, and particularly during the long periods of military rule, the leadership of the federal government had been in the hands of Muslim officers from the north of the country. By 1998, therefore, when General Abdul Salami Abubakar took over (after the death in office of General Abacha) and declared his intention to hand over power to an elected government in 1999, there was a strong campaign in the south for what was then called a "power shift" away from the north. Politicians reached a consensus after much acrimony, and northern politicians, with one or two notable exceptions,1 decided not to seek their parties' nomination for the presidency but, rather, to endorse and support Christian candidates from the south.KeywordsReligious IdentityMuslim WorldTrust DialogueColonial AdministrationIntercultural DialogueThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

Administration (probate law) · Ethnic group · General election · Government (linguistics) · Nomination · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Presidency · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Law · Public Administration

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