@article{ref1,
title="Self‐determination group or extra‐legal governance agency? The multifaceted nature of the Oodua people's congress in Nigeria",
journal="Journal of international development",
year="2009",
author="Guichaoua, Yvan",
volume="21",
number="4",
pages="520-533",
abstract="The paper contributes to the understanding of the origins of violent non-legal organisations in West Africa by focusing on the emergence and the evolution of the Oodua People's Congress (OPC), a movement aiming at defending the interests of the Yoruba people in Nigeria. It discusses the causes of its gradual transformation from a self-determination group ready to use political violence into an agency of local extra-legal governance tolerated by official federal authorities. This evolution may reflect the normalisation of the OPC in Nigeria's weak democracy. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p />",
language="",
issn="0954-1748",
doi="10.1002/jid.1569",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jid.1569"
}