Chapter 1 The Leadership-Governance-Development Nexus: Separating Coincidences from Correlations

Chapter 2 Values, Vision, and Leadership in a Diverse Society: A Review of Nigeria’s Environmental Engagement Challenges

Chapter 3 Leadership Selection, Governorship, and Development: The Institutional Dimension

Chapter 4 Role of Civil Society in Leadership Recruitment and Renewal

Chapter 5 Soft Choices in a Hard Environment: Meeting Post-Independence Governorship Challenges

Chapter 6 Engaging the Environment from the Macro-Economic Angle: Economic Management after Independence

Chapter 7 Balancing Domestic Welfare Needs With External “Conditionalities”: Leadership Engagement with the People and the International Environment

Chapter 8 Civility in the Lion’s Den: Leadership Selection and Retrenchment in the First Republic

Chapter 9 Leadership as an Imposition: the Military Shortcut to Power

Chapter 10 Enter the Fourth Republic: Another Shot at Dynamic Engagement or a Return to Neo-Military Governorship?