Governance and Economic Growth in Nigeria: The Role of China and the U.S. Between 2001–2011 by Saidat Ilo is a valiant and commendable contribution to our understanding of the role and place of the US and China -- two global hegemons -- to the economic and political development of Nigeria between 2001 and 2011. Indeed, this volume is a worthy effort by a young and emerging scholar and is worthy of praise.

Sabella O. Abidde, Alabama State University

This book is both compelling and well-informed about the role of governance and its feasible nexus with Nigeria’s economic growth. It offers a healthy comparison of the critical balance sheets of the achievements and shortcomings of the Nigerian government in dealing with the vexing questions of the nation's economic past and present. It is also ground-breaking, and theoretically and methodologically grounded. In sum, it comprises a lucid and stringent corrective to the lazy complacency of much conventional wisdom about the past and the present.

Abdul Karim Bangura, American University Center for Global Peace