Pentecostal republic
Christian Pentecostalism has crept to the center of public life in Nigeria.
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Ebenezer Obadare, a scholar of Nigeria, is professor of sociology at the University of Kansas. He is co-editor of Journal of Modern African Studies.
Christian Pentecostalism has crept to the center of public life in Nigeria.
Goodluck Jonathan becomes the first incumbent president in the Nigeria’s history, since the advent of democratic rule in 1999, to lose to the opposition.
A conscious effort must be made – mustering Nigeria’s considerable human capital at home and in the diaspora- to build alternative structures of political engagement.