Description: This is the first systematic effort to undertake a detailed, case study-based analysis of the dynamics of identity politics in contemporary Nigeria. The study was initiated and undertaken at a time of great political turmoil and continuing economic decline conditioned by an adjustment program of sorts and the most brutal experience of military dictatorship in Nigeria's history. This broad context had a direct role in shaping and re-shaping identity politics in Nigeria during the 1980s and 1990s. Many students of Nigeria's contemporary political economy felt a great sense of frustration at the absence of a properly researched and historically grounded analysis of the shifts taking place in the contours of identity politics. This study, therefore, represents a major contribution to an understanding of contemporary Nigerian politics, economy and society.

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