The Documentation of African research

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As a support paper for the international, Ford Foundation-funded project on “Democratic Transition and Structural Adjustment in Nigeria, 1984-1992” (jointly directed by Drs. Larry Diamond of the Hoover Institution, Oyedele Oyediran of the University of Ibadan, and the present writer representing the University of Oxford), which plans to distil into two volumes the fifty papers presented at the sequential Conferences held at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, in August 1990 and at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, in January 1991 for publication to coincide with the Nigerian military’s withdrawal from government scheduled by President Ibrahim Babagida for late 1992,1 constructed a select calendar of primary official documentation relating to Nigeria’s constitutional history from 1919 to 1989. This, of course, takes no account of the secondary literature.