REJOINDER: Beyond Nostalgia — Coalition Governance, Political Economy, and the Myth of Nigeria’s “One-Party Drift”
By Tanimu Yakubu Prince Charles Dickson’s essay is elegant, historically evocative, and rhetorically compelling. But it ultimately rests on a familiar weakness in Nigerian political commentary: the substitution of literary analogy for institutional analysis, and sentiment for empirical evaluation. To understand Nigeria’s present, one must move beyond the poeticContinue Reading















