A culture of corruption
Subtitle: everyday deception and popular discontent in Nigeria
By: Daniel Jordan Smith
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780691127224
Subjects: Corruption -- Nigeria; Nigeria -- Moral conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-256) and index
Table of contents: title: "Urgent business relationship" : Nigerian e-mail scams; title: From favoritism to 419 : corruption in everyday life; title: Development scams : donors, dollars, and NGO entrepreneurs; title: "Fair play even among robbers" : democracy, politics, and corruption; title: Rumors, riots, and diabolical rituals; title: "They became the criminals they were supposed to fight" : crime, corruption, and vigilante justice; title: Anticorruption aspirations : Biafrans and born-again Christians