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The need for an ethnography of the Nigerian financial sector

  • January 5, 2010

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[…]

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Rejecting the Normal

  • December 29, 2009

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[…]

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Who needs a president ? – A Proposal for an NSP

  • December 28, 2009

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[…]

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Shades of Black

  • December 28, 2009

In the BusinessDay of December 15, 2009 Recently, we got the news in Germany that the most famous German investigative journalist dyed his hair dark and painted himself black in[…]

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On Pride and the Budget

  • November 24, 2009

In the BusinessDay of December 1, 2009 Sometime ago, in a forum of Nigerians, someone said that he did not know whether to be proud to be a Nigerian.  The[…]

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Africa after 1989

  • November 10, 2009

In the BusinessDay of November 9, 2009 In Africa, generally, the left-right political divide does not make much sense. I do not remember the last time I heard of a[…]

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How I became a Nigerian

  • November 3, 2009

In the BusinessDay of November 3, 2009 I was not a Nigerian until I lived outside Nigeria. Let me explain.The realization that I am Nigerian hit me right between the[…]

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Chinese in Africa

  • October 31, 2009

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[…]

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On Religious Tolerance

  • October 20, 2009

In the BusinessDay of October 20, 2009 Sometime a couple of years ago, during the Christmas season, I was at a bank in Ibadan with a friend. A man came[…]

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Anthropology and Finance

  • October 14, 2009

In the BusinessDay of October 13, 2009 The world recently marked a year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an incident that has been described by many as the beginning[…]

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