Titlebook: State, Class and Underdevelopment in Nigeria and Early Meiji Japan; Sakah Saidu Mahmud Book 1996 Sakah Saidu Mahmud 1996 development.econo

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ses in post-independent Nigeria in its effort to achieve capitalist development. Before the Restoration and independence, both Japan and Nigeria lacked any prospects for further development. Japan, however, pursued fundamental social transformations of society leading to capitalist development, wher

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Politics of Independence and Social Change in Nigeriaerlooked in the analysis of development or underdevelopment in less developed societies. This chapter ventures to bridge such a gap in explaining the persistence of underdevelopment in Nigeria. In doing so, the Nigerian case will be compared with Meiji Japan’s experience which was examined in the previous chapter.

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IntroductionEngland in the seventeenth century and subsequently the development of Japan beginning in the nineteenth century, there has been a fascination with the phenomenon of national development. Furthermore, the beginning of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a different approach to national

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Economy, Society and the State in Pre-Independence Nigeria and in Pre-Meiji Japanw different were the societies? Why did capitalism fail to emerge in both countries in these periods? Answers to these questions will help to debunk the often mentioned ‘Japanese exception’ theory that claims that Japan’s capitalist success was the result of its history — its feudal past — and also

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Restoration and Social Transformation in Early Meiji Japane of Japanese society. These forces included the increasing influence of the merchant class to whom the samurai ruling class was becoming more indebted, and the threat of foreign domination — and perhaps colonisation — of Japan. These forces created dissatisfaction among the lower class samurai — mo

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State and Capitalist Development in Early Meiji Japantarian state in which the peasantry and workers were economically exploited and politically oppressed. This section of the chapter analyses the nature of the Meiji state that emerged from the Restoration. Later in the chapter I will show how the state was used by the Meiji leaders to achieve capital

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Conclusions contemporary Third World have failed to develop because of their colonial past and subsequent subordinate position in the global capitalist economy. The argument has often been defended by contrasting these countries’ experience to Japan whose capitalist success has been attributed to its escape fr