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29%OFFDaniel Jordan Smith - A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria - 9780691136479 - V9780691136479
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A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria

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Description for A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria Paperback. Attempts to understand the dilemmas average Nigerians face every day as they try to get ahead - or just survive - in a society riddled with corruption. This book paints a portrait of Nigerian corruption - of nationwide fuel shortages in Africa's oil-producing giant, Internet cafes where the young launch their e-mail scams, and more. Num Pages: 296 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: JFFX; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
E-mails proposing an "urgent business relationship" help make fraud Nigeria's largest source of foreign revenue after oil. But scams are also a central part of Nigeria's domestic cultural landscape. Corruption is so widespread in Nigeria that its citizens call it simply "the Nigerian factor." Willing or unwilling participants in corruption at every turn, Nigerians are deeply ambivalent about it--resigning themselves to it, justifying it, or complaining about it. They are painfully aware of the damage corruption does to their country and see themselves as their own worst enemies, but they have been unable to stop it. A Culture of Corruption ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
462g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691136479
SKU
V9780691136479
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About Daniel Jordan Smith
Daniel Jordan Smith is associate professor of anthropology at Brown University. He has worked in Nigeria since the late 1980s, first as a public health adviser with a nongovernmental organization and later as an anthropologist.

Reviews for A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria
Winner of the 2008 Margaret Mead Award "The heart of the book concerns how Nigerians cope daily with the need to 'settle' with those who hold power, but are also experiencing a breakdown of the system that at least allowed for survival."
Nina C. Ayoub, Chronicle of Higher Education "[Smith's] book offers a sophisticated and deeply troubling portrait of a contemporary ... Read more

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