The dynamics of civil society and the democratization process in Nigeria

Abstract

This article is the output of a fellowship at the Tran regional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS), New School University, New York. I am grateful to the TCDS and Professor Andrew Arato, the commentator at the TCDS Conference where the first draft was presented, to Professor Akin Mabogunje of the Development Policy Centre, and to the two anonymous reviewers of the Canadian Journal of African Studies for their useful comments on the manuscript.