Who Guards The Guardians
Last week, I was concerned with how much the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) recent measures for managing the demand for and supply of foreign exchange speak to a macroeconomic[…]
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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[…]
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Anthropologically Speaking · Column
Anthropology and Finance
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[…]
Nigerian Banking Crisis Blog Review
A review by Arin Since the breaking news on what has been dubbed ‘The Friday Bank Massacre’ by one Nigerian newspaper, many Nigerians and friends of Nigeria have, judging by[…]