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iiclr-17813	Oko, Okechukwu	Partition or Perish: Restoring Social Equilibrium in Nigeria Through Reconfiguration	1998	64	.pdf	application/pdf	30801	1676	51	70 When the colonial administration left, ethnic groups engaged in a fierce battle with each other to control the machinery of the state.7' Freed from the pangs of despotism and dictatorship, ethnic groups became interested in acquiring political power and the economic resources that go with it.7 The battle intensified as 67. Francis Deng, Africa and the New World Dis-Order: Rethinking Colonial Borders, BROOKINGS REV., Spring 1993, at 34 (noting that because colonial institutions had divested the local communities and ethnic groups of much of their indigenous autonomy and sustainable livelihood, and replaced them with a degree of centralized authority and dependency on the welfare state system, once control of these institutions passed on to the nationals at independence, the struggle for control became unavoidable). 72.	cache/iiclr-17813.pdf	txt/iiclr-17813.txt