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Kenyas Independence Constitution, by Robert M. Maxon, details the evolution of Kenyas constitution during the final stage of decolonization. Starting with the close of the first Lancaster House conference of 1960, Maxon illuminates the many influences that shaped Kenyas constitution-making. It concludes in 1963, coinciding with the end of empire, when political ethnicity dominated discourse. While the self-government constitution provided for majimbo, or federal constitution, the winning party ...

Vanguard News CIVIL WAR: ‘Nigeria more divided now than in 1967’ On •No basis for Nigeria’s unity – Nnamdi Kanu By Clifford Ndujihe, Political Editor YEESTERDAY, January 15, marked exactly 51 years of the end of the 30-month Nigerian-Biafran Civil War that claimed an estimated three million lives on both sides. After the war, the Nigerian military regime of General Yakubu Gowon declared that there was no victor, no vanquished. He unfurled a three-pronged Programme of reconstruction, ...

Share ONGOING efforts to amend the 1999 Constitution fall short of the collective demands by a preponderance of stakeholders in the Nigerian project for restructuring. KUNLE ODEREMI writes on the underlining issues in restructuring. At Independence on October 1, 1960, four constitutions were in operation in Nigeria. While there was the 1960 Independence Constitution, each of the three regions: East, West and North had their separate constitutions. Each region also had their individual represen...