Civil Rights and Pro-democracy Groups in and outside Nigeria

The Emergence of Human Rights Groups in Nigeria Prior to the early 1980s., the concept of human rights in Nigeria was almost the exclusive preserve of lawyers, academics, constitutional experts and members of the judiciary. Even ethnic minorities who were not satisfied with their lot in the sociopolitical scheme of things tended to express their complaints in terms of ‘marginalization’. Itwas in the early 1980s that the notion of ‘human rights’ gained currency in Nigeria, as the basic right o..