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This Present Darkness - A History of Nigerian Organised Crime (Paperback)
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This Present Darkness - A History of Nigerian Organised Crime (Paperback)
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Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for
involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types
of serious crime. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a
global reach, interacting with their Italian, Latin American and
Russian counterparts. Yet in 1944, a British colonial official
wrote that 'the number of persistent and professional criminals is
not great' in Nigeria and that 'crime as a career has so far made
little appeal to the young Nigerian'. This book traces the origins
of Nigerian organised crime to the last years of colonial rule,
when nationalist politicians acquired power at a regional level. In
need of funds for campaigning, they offered government contracts to
foreign businesses in return for kickbacks, in a pattern that
recurs to this day. Political corruption encouraged a wider
disrespect for the law that spread throughout Nigerian society.
When the country's oil boom came to an end in the early 1980s,
young Nigerian college graduates headed abroad, eager to make money
by any means. Nigerian crime went global at the very moment new
criminal markets were emerging all over the world.
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