"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 has done a
better job than Daniel Jordan Smith of showing how and why the
cancer of corruption has hobbled the giant of Africa. A Culture of
Corruption is an absorbing cultural study by an anthropologist who
deeply cares about the society into which he has married."--Walter
Carrington, former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria
"This is a path-breaking study of a challenging topic for
African studies, anthropology, development economics, and social
sciences in general. If any country in Africa should be able to
join the world's newly industrialized countries, it should be
Nigeria in view of its size and its oil wealth. The common
explanation of its constant failure to do so is corruption. The
great merit of this book is to show that corruption has many faces
in everyday life. The term is all too often used as a blanket
notion. Smith shows how misleading this is by studying it as a
daily reality with manifold expressions. The book fills an urgent
need. We must better understand the reasons why Africa's giant is
stagnating if we want to be able to say something about the
continent's present-day crisis."--Peter Geschiere, University of
Amsterdam
"Nigeria is known globally as a center for scams of a variety
and audacity that are astounding to those who trust that their own
societies and economies run according to 'the rules.' In "A Culture
of Corruption," Daniel Jordan Smith draws on many years of living
in Nigeria as an NGO representative andanthropologist to cast a
very wide net around Nigerian corruption, to include contemporary
official and unofficial malfeasance of all kinds. His exposition is
graphic, detailed, and broadly supported. He doesn't flinch before
quite terrifying case material. There is no other work that covers
the same ground so clearly and in such a nuanced and observant
manner."--Jane I. Guyer, Johns Hopkins University
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