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Sub-Saharan Africa

Nation Needs to ’Move Back From the Brink’

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  • John Campbell
    Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies

Cindy Shiner from allafrica.com interviewed me about my book and the current political situation in Nigeria.

Here’s an excerpt:

That is new. There is a footnote I would add to this -once Nigeria did fall off the cliff. That was the civil war of 1967 to 1970, so it has happened in the past.

One of the things that concerns me is that at least among some of the elites there is a sort of pride about dancing on the brink as opposed to a prudence about the need to draw back from the brink.

Read the whole thing here.