– Nigeria’s Contributions to Democratization in Sierra Leone, 1995-2005 –
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ABSTRACT
This study problematizes the issues of good neighborliness and democratization in Africa, and analyses the effects of Nigeria’s economy on these. Focusing on the relationship between Nigeria’s foreign policy and the democratization process in Sierra Leone,
The study examines the challenges Nigeria faced in trying to achieve her foreign policy goals as she spearheads conflict resolution in the sub-region.
Utilizing dominant approach of conflict resolution theory as our explanatory framework, observational technique and content analysis as our method of data collection and analysis respectively,
The study evaluates the role Nigeria played under the auspices of the ECOMOG, and the sacrifices made to restore peace in Sierra Leone and contend that generally,
Nigeria’s foreign policy has been the driving force behind every peacekeeping operation in West Africa and that Nigeria deployed both her material and human resources to restore a democratically elected government in Sierra-Leone in particular.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page i
Approval Page ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgements iv
Table of Contents v
Abstract vii
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
- Background to the Study 1
- Statement of Problem 4
- Objectives of Study 5
- Significance of Study 5
- Literature Review 6
- Theoretical Framework 8
- Hypotheses 10
- Method of Data Collection 11
CHAPTER TWO: PROBLEMS OF DEMOCRATIZATION IN SIERRA-LEONE BEFORE AND AFTER 1995
- Historical background 13
- Problems of democratization in Sierra-Leone 19
- History and government of Sierra-Leone from the colonial administration through the civil war 28
- Summary of the bloody civil war in Sierra-Leone 46
CHAPTER THREE: CHALLENGES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF NIGERIA’S INTERVENTION BETWEEN 1995 AND 2005
- Introduction 50
- ECOWAS 55
- ECOMOG 55
- Impact of the Conflict on Development Outcome 61
- Achievements and the Nigeria’s Foreign Policy Interventionist Role in Sierra-Leone 69
- Similarities of the Sierra-Leone Conflict with Vietnam 72
- Development Planning Achievements in Sierra-Leone 76
CHAPTER FOUR: SIERRA LEONE AND THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY
- Introduction 82
- The Political Events in Sierra Leone between 1787-1945 84
- The Slater Constitution of 1924 85
- The Stevenson or Beresford-Stooke Constitution of 1951 87
- The 1957 Constitution 89
- The General Election of 1957 90
- The 1958 Constitution 91
- The London Constitutional Conference of 1960 91
- Sierra Leone 1961 – 1969 92
- Political and Constitutional Developments between 1967 and 1971 105
- Hope for the Future in Sierra Leone 114
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMENDATION
- Summary 116
- Applications in Support of Democracy 119
- Conclusion 126
- Recommendation 146
- Bibliography 151
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
No doubt, Nigeria’s foreign policy has had great impact on both Sierra Leone as a country and Africa as a continent.
But there is an ongoing debate about why Nigeria took so much interest in the democratization of African states especially Sierra Leone where she lost so many soldiers and still continued in the struggle.
Secondly, was Nigeria’s economy buoyant enough to have carried out the peacekeeping process all alone? In 1960, the then Prime Minister Alhaji (Sir) Abubakar Tafawa Balewa made Africa the centre piece of Nigeria’s foreign policy.
In his words, “we belong to Africa and Africa must claim first attention in our external relations”. (Omotere, 2011:2).Thus successive government have had to carve out their foreign policies (although, with focus on Africa).
The government of General Sani Abacha (1993-1998) which coincided with period of political crisis in Sierra Leone demonstrated this.
“Foreign policy is the coordinated application of the elements of national power for the promotion of the national interest.
The interrelated, interdependent components of grand strategy or elements of national power, used selectively or in combinations in inter-state and other external relations, include economic power and resources, socio-cultural resources (such as language, race, religion, entertainment), population or the human potentials…” (Obasi, 2007:158).
Again, according to Okolie (2009:9) “Nigeria foreign policy, like other countries’ foreign policies is formulated in a highly complex and dynamic environment”.
REFERENCES
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Auty, Richard M. (1993). Sustaining Development in Mineral Economies: The Resource Curse Thesis. London: Routledge.
Bankole Thompson (1997). The Constitutional History and Law of Sierra Leone 1961-1995. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
Beah, Ishmael (2007). A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Gberie, Lansana (2005). A Dirty War in West Africa: the RUF and the Destruction of Sierra Leone. Indiana UP.
Bergner, Daniel (2003). In the Land of Magic Soldiers: a Story of White and Black in Africa. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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