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A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE ISAAC ADAKA BORO REVOLUTION AND THE NIGER DELTA QUESTION

Pages 112-126
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17318656
Keywords: Historical review Isaac Boro revolution Niger Delta

Abstract

This paper has examined the situation in the Niger Delta region, which prompted Isaac Adaka Boro to carry out a revolt against the Federal Military Government of Nigeria in 1966. The essay reviewed and x-rayed the marginalization of the region in the political affairs of the country and the consequential misery and poverty peoples of the region. The dynamics of political and economic power in the region which sustained the oppression are also discussed. It is argued that the exposure of the people to life of want and misery necessitated the need to turn their sources of frustration into instruments of development of the region with revolution. The study argues the governments create an environment for accelerated development by properly restructuring the federation called Nigeria to give room to resource control.

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Obubo, E. & Emordi, E. (2023), "A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE ISAAC ADAKA BORO REVOLUTION AND THE NIGER DELTA QUESTION", in Niger Delta Research Digest Vol. 13, No. 1, pp112-126, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17318656.

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