Article: Nigeria's Breaking Point.(ethnic and religious conflict threaten Nigeria)(Brief Article)

A year after Nigeria's generals decided to end fifteen straight years of ruinous military rule and hand power to a civilian government, albeit one headed by a retired general, the West African giant is back to the age-old question of its very existence: Can the center hold? Cobbled up by the British colonial army a century ago, Nigeria--with 300 ethnic groups and competing religious traditions of Islam, Christianity and traditional African beliefs--is a country where unity is always going to be a difficult proposition. While the preponderance of military rule since independence may have kept the lid on a boiling caldron of ethnic and religious ferment, the generals' ...

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