A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria

by Daniel Jordan Smith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691136475
• ISBN13: 9780691136479
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"