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Victor A. Olorunsola. Societal Reconstruction in Two African States. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1977. iv + 296 pp. Notes, tables. $9.75 paper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Mark W. DeLancey
Mark W. DeLancey*
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Department of Government & International Studies, University of South Carolina
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ASA Review of Books , Volume 5 , 1979 , pp. 218 - 219
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1979

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References

1 Price, Robert M., “A Theoretical Approach to Military Rule in New States: Reference Group Theory and the Ghanaian Case,” World Politics, 23. 3 (April 1971): 399–430.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 For examples, see Mazrui, Ali, “The Resurrection of the Warrior Tradition in African Political Culture,” Journal of Modern African Studies, 13, 1 (1975): 67–84 CrossRefGoogle Scholar and his earlier essay, “The Monarchial Tendency in African Political Culture,” British Journal of Sociology, 18, 3 (September 1967): 231-250.

3 However, before starting such work, see Olorunsola's other recent publication, Soldiers and Power: The Development Performance of the Nigerian Military Regime (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1977).