A culture of corruption everyday deception and popular discontent in Nigeria.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton Princeton university press 2007Description: XXIII, 263 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0-691-12722-0
  • 978-0-691-12722-4
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Contents:
"Urgent business relationship" : Nigerian e-mail scams -- From favoritism to 419 : corruption in everyday life -- Development scams : donors, dollars, and NGO entrepreneurs -- "Fair play even among robbers" : democracy, politics, and corruption -- Rumors, riots, and diabolical rituals -- "They became the criminals they were supposed to fight" : crime, corruption, and vigilante justice -- Anticorruption aspirations : Biafrans and born-again Christians.
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book Library of Ethnosociology & Ethnohistory 116.672 ASE Available 2855773-20

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Urgent business relationship" : Nigerian e-mail scams -- From favoritism to 419 : corruption in everyday life -- Development scams : donors, dollars, and NGO entrepreneurs -- "Fair play even among robbers" : democracy, politics, and corruption -- Rumors, riots, and diabolical rituals -- "They became the criminals they were supposed to fight" : crime, corruption, and vigilante justice -- Anticorruption aspirations : Biafrans and born-again Christians.