My take on Welcome to Lagos
Some Nigerians are complaining about the BBC documentary Welcome to Lagos because, they say, it is not balanced. I have not seen the second in the series so I can’t[…]
Author: Olumide Abimbola
Acting President Goodluck Jonathan talks about the Niger Delta and Jos
See here for more. In all, the acting president was impressive.
Joint Statement by U.S, U.K and E.U on Nigeria
Via Jide Salu. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton London, United Kingdom January 28, 2010[…]
Of Commentaries, Reactions and Over-Reactions
In the BusinessDay of January 12, 2010 December 25, 2009: A Nigerian-born male, with secondary education in Togo and university education in London, said to have been radicalized during his[…]
Cash disbursement to Niger Deltans
I just read from the Financial Times, through the PSD blog, that the Nigerian government is considering giving part of the proceeds of oil exploration to indigenes of the Niger[…]
Culture and Society · Politics · World Affairs
A country that has an over-bloated impression of itself?
Former American ambassador to Nigeria, Princeton Lyman, writing on today’s (ir)relevance of Nigeria. If Nigeria fails? I have a long connection to Nigeria. Not only was I ambassador there, I[…]
The need for an ethnography of the Nigerian financial sector
My column of this week. Cross-posted. 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[…]
Anthropologically Speaking · Column
The need for an ethnography of the Nigerian financial sector
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[…]
Anthropologically Speaking · Column
Rejecting the Normal
In the BusinessDay of December 29, 2009 There is a thing about being so close to something that one does not see it anymore. Anthropologists normally refer to it as[…]
Anthropologically Speaking · Column
Who needs a president ? – A Proposal for an NSP
In the BusinessDay of December 22, 2009 Nigeria is not known as a country that has contributed a lot to the development of democracy, what with very many years of[…]