What do Africans think about violent social conflict, including its causes and preferred solutions? How do conflicts affect popular support for democracy?
The Afrobarometer introduced questions on conflict in a survey in Nigeria in August 2001. We chose to start with Africa’s most populated nation because it is a continental bellwether; as goes Nigeria, as a source of either chaos or stability, so goes the neighborhood.
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