The decline and fall of Kanu
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The recent implosion of Kanu is the major event of the 2002 elections. It must be understood in the light of the contradictions that have defined the party for several decades. Studying its creation at the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s reveals a significant rift between a politics of national inclusion, defended by a fraction of the elite, on the one hand, and demands for the protection of regional interests (Majimboism) on the other. This rift resurfaced forty years later, in radically different circumstances. It has contributed to the blockage of elite alliances, which provoked Kanu’s paralysis in 2002.
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