Murtala Mohammed' s crusading government which implemented the same failed economic strategy but with more nationalist flair...
Murtala Mohammed and Gen...
Vol 39 No 5 |
- WEST AFRICA
Abacha's domestic political platform and to boost Nigeria's African standing which has waned since the Murtala Mohammed-Olusegun Obasanjo governments substantially backed liberation movements in Angola Mozambique Namibia and South Africa in the 1970s...
Nigeria's most popular leader to date is Murtala Mohammed a northern Muslim from Kano whose radical support of Southern African liberation movements in the 1970s gave the country an international stature it has not been able to regain since...