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Every Household Its Own Government - Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria (Hardcover)
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Every Household Its Own Government - Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria (Hardcover)
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An up-close account of how Nigerians' self-reliance in the absence
of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to
strengthen state power When Nigerians say that every household is
its own local government, what they mean is that the politicians
and state institutions of Africa's richest, most populous country
cannot be trusted to ensure even the most basic infrastructure
needs of their people. Daniel Jordan Smith traces how innovative
entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens in Nigeria have forged their
own systems in response to these deficiencies, devising creative
solutions in the daily struggle to survive. Drawing on his three
decades of experience in Nigeria, Smith examines the many ways
Nigerians across multiple social strata develop technologies,
businesses, social networks, political strategies, cultural
repertoires, and everyday routines to cope with the constant
failure of government infrastructure. He describes how Nigerians
provide for basic needs like water, electricity, transportation,
security, communication, and education-and how their inventiveness
comes with consequences. On the surface, it may appear that their
self-reliance and sheer hustle render the state irrelevant. In
reality, the state is not so much absent as complicit. Smith shows
how private efforts to address infrastructural shortcomings require
regular engagement with government officials, shaping the
experience of citizenship and strengthening state power. Every
Household Its Own Government reveals how these dealings have
contributed to forms and practices of governance that thrive on
official dysfunction and perpetuate the very inequalities and
injustices that afflict struggling Nigerians.
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