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A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria
by Daniel Jordan Smith  Synopsis "By all measurements Nigeria, richly endowed with natural and human resources and the United States' fifth largest source of imported oil, should be one of the most prosperous of the world's developing countries. Instead it is one of the poorest. No one...
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A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria
by Daniel Jordan Smith Review Smith examines e-mail schemes as cultural texts, analyzing their structure and what they say about the culture of corruption in Nigeria....
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The Politics of Bones: Dr. Owens Wiwa and the Struggle for Nigeria's Oil
by Timothy J Hunt Publisher Comments The gripping story of a people’s battle against a corrupt government and a powerful oil company. On November 10, 1995, Nigeria’s military dictatorship executed nine environmental activists. Among them was Ken Saro-Wiwa, the charismatic...
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A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir
by Toyin Falola Publisher Comments "Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only...
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Pan-african Nations : Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria (05 Edition)
by Andrew H. Apter Publisher Comments When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African...
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You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir
by Wole Soyinka Publisher Comments The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an...
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Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta
by Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas Publisher Comments On 22 February 1895, a naval force laid siege to Brass, the chief city of the Ijo people of Nembe in Nigeria's Niger Delta. After severe fighting, the city was razed. More than two thousand people perished in the attack. A hundred years later, the...
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In Shadow of a Saint : a Son's Journey To Understand His Father's Legacy (01 Edition)
by Ken Wiwa Synopsis In late 1995, the little-known Ogoni region in Nigeria became a fable for our times. Ken Saro-Wiwa, a renowned poet and environmentalist, was campaigning to protect his Ogoni people against the encroachments of Shell Oil and a brutal dictatorship. He was...
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Open Sore of a Continent (96 Edition)
by Wole Soyinka Publisher Comments On November 10, 1995, the Nigerian military government under General Sani Abacha executed dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight other activists, and the international community reacted with outrage. From the Geneva based International...
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Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies
by Toyin Falola Synopsis A comprehensive study of religious violence and aggression in Nigeria, notably its causes, consequences, and the options for conflict resolution....
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AIDS in Nigeria: A Nation on the Threshold (Harvard Series on Population and International Health)
by Olusoji Adeyi Publisher Comments Every minute a Nigerian man, woman, or child becomes infected with HIV. Soon Nigeria will be home to more people living with HIV than any other country in Africa. With 5 percent of its inhabitants already infected, Nigeria has reached the critical...
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This House Has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis
by Karl Maier Publisher Comments To understand Africa, one must understand Nigeria, and few Americans understand Nigeria better than Karl Maier. This House Has Fallen is a bracing and disturbing report on the state of Africa's most populous, potentially richest, and most dangerously...
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Muslim Civic Cultures and Conflict Resolution: The Challenge of Democratic Federalism in Nigeria (Brookings Series on U.S. Policy Toward the Islamic World)
by John N. Paden Synopsis John Paden, a noted expert on West African and Islamic societies, uses Nigeria as a critical case study of how a diverse country with a significant Muslim population is working to make the transition to a democratic society. Although little-studied, the...
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Democracy and Civil Society in Nigeria
by Matthew Hassa Kukah Publisher Comments An in-depth historical analysis of the identity and role of the African woman: in relation to her husband, her family and society; and of the central importance of women to an inclusive and successful African renaissance. The author draws on the writings...
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Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life
by Elaine Neil Orr Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-308)....
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Medicine and Society #10: Imperial Bedlam
by Jonathan Sadowsky Publisher Comments The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly insane in 1906. These asylums were administered by the British but confined Africans. Yet, as even many in the government recognized, insanity is a condition that...
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Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man
by Vincent Carretta Synopsis This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?-97), who in his day was the English-speaking world's most renowned person of African descent. Equiano's greatest legacy is his classic 1789 autobiography, The...
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Poison and Medicine: Ethnicity, Power, and Violence in a Nigerian City, 1966 to 1986 (Social History of Africa,)
by Douglas A Anthony Publisher Comments Ethnicity can be brought to destructive or constructive ends, depending on who mobilizes it and how it is wielded. There is abundant evidence in Africa and elsewhere of the tragically divisive influence of ethnicized politics. The constructive...
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Culture and Customs of Nigeria (Culture and Customs of Africa,)
by Toyin Falola Publisher Comments Nigeria, one of the largest and most important countries in Africa, is rich in traditions and customs, both indigenous and modern. Culture and Customs of Nigeria is the only concise, authoritative, and up-to-date discussion of Nigerian culture that...
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Nigerian Chiefs: Traditional Power in Modern Politics, 1890s-1990s (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)
by Olufemi Vaughan Synopsis This book analyzes how indigenous political power structures in Nigeria survived both the constricting forces of colonialism and the modernization programs of postcolonial regimes. With twenty detailed case studies on colonial and postcolonial Nigerian...
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