TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Self‐determination group or extra‐legal governance agency? The multifaceted nature of the Oodua people's congress in Nigeria
JO  - Journal of international development
A1  - Guichaoua, Yvan
SP  - 520
EP  - 533
VL  - 21
IS  - 4
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0954-1748
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jid.1569
ID  - ref1
ER  -