A Culture of Corruption : : Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria / / Daniel Jordan Smith.
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...
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Smith, Daniel Jordan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Culture of Corruption : Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010] ©2006 1 online resource (296 p.) : 10 halftones. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1: "Urgent Business Relationship": Nigerian E-Mail Scams -- CHAPTER 2: From Favoritism to 419: Corruption in Everyday Life -- CHAPTER 3: Development Scams: Donors, Dollars, and NGO Entrepreneurs -- CHAPTER 4: "Fair Play Even among Robbers": Democracy, Politics, and Corruption -- CHAPTER 5: Rumors, Riots, and Diabolical Rituals -- CHAPTER 6: "They Became the Criminals They Were Supposed to Fight": Crime, Corruption, and Vigilante Justice -- CHAPTER 7: Anticorruption Aspirations: Biafrans and Born-again Christians -- CONCLUSION -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 is a profound and sympathetic attempt to understand the dilemmas average Nigerians face every day as they try to get ahead--or just survive--in a society riddled with corruption. Drawing on firsthand experience, Daniel Jordan Smith paints a vivid portrait of Nigerian corruption--of nationwide fuel shortages in Africa's oil-producing giant, Internet cafés where the young launch their e-mail scams, checkpoints where drivers must bribe police, bogus organizations that siphon development aid, and houses painted with the fraud-preventive words "not for sale." This is a country where "419"--the number of an antifraud statute--has become an inescapable part of the culture, and so universal as a metaphor for deception that even a betrayed lover can say, "He played me 419." It is impossible to comprehend Nigeria today--from vigilantism and resurgent ethnic nationalism to rising Pentecostalism and accusations of witchcraft and cannibalism--without understanding the role played by corruption and popular reactions to it.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Corruption Nigeria. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691136479 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400837229 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400837229 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400837229.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1: "Urgent Business Relationship": Nigerian E-Mail Scams -- CHAPTER 2: From Favoritism to 419: Corruption in Everyday Life -- CHAPTER 3: Development Scams: Donors, Dollars, and NGO Entrepreneurs -- CHAPTER 4: "Fair Play Even among Robbers": Democracy, Politics, and Corruption -- CHAPTER 5: Rumors, Riots, and Diabolical Rituals -- CHAPTER 6: "They Became the Criminals They Were Supposed to Fight": Crime, Corruption, and Vigilante Justice -- CHAPTER 7: Anticorruption Aspirations: Biafrans and Born-again Christians -- CONCLUSION -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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