The Market and Fuel Scarcity
Over the last two weeks I have bought fuel (in different parts of Lagos) for N105/litre. Two features distinguish the outlets which sold to me from the others: the relative[…]
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Culture and Society · General · Literature · Writing
alligator legs: my writing rules
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,[…]
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Fixing the giant: Can Nigeria’s textile industry regain lost glory?
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),[…]
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
Chinese in Africa
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[…]