Nigeria: An End to the Permanent Transition

Issue Date January 1999
Volume 10
Issue 1
Page Numbers 141-56
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About the Author

Peter M. Lewis is Dr. Warren Weinstein Associate Professor of African Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he also serves as director of the African Studies Program. Most recently, he is coeditor (with John W. Harbeson) of Coping with Crisis in African States (2016).

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