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alligator legs: my writing rules

alligator legs: my writing rules

0 / May 10, 2011 2:37 am

the guardian asked zadie smith, one of a handful of contemporary writers, to comment on her rules for writing. since i found zadie’s list to be depressing, pessimistic, and utterly without joy, i wrote my own.  keep in mind that i am [...]

Fixing the giant: Can Nigeria’s textile industry regain lost glory?

Fixing the giant: Can Nigeria’s textile industry regain lost glory?

0 / June 28, 2010 8:33 am

This article was originally written for www.tradeinvestnigeria.com. In May, an Indian trade mission, led by Mr. Ravi Bangar, the deputy permanent representative of India to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), paid a visit to Mr. Jubril Martins-Kuye, Nigeria’s Minister for [...]

The need for an ethnography of the Nigerian financial sector

The need for an ethnography of the Nigerian financial sector

0 / January 5, 2010 11:15 pm

In the BusinessDay of January 5, 2010 Anthropologist Karen Ho carried out a seventeen-month-long fieldwork on Wall Street, interviewing and observing investment bankers. She first started out working as a rookie management consulting analyst in a hybrid investment and commercial [...]

Chinese in Africa

Chinese in Africa

0 / October 31, 2009 12:45 pm

In the BusinessDay of October 27, 2009 The most popular way of looking at China in Africa is through the dual lenses of international relations and international trade. One main argument that comes out of this is that, the way [...]