...Steven Pierce Recent political homophobia in Nigeria, including vigilante violence and repressive legislation, is often imagined to be a reaction to outside forces: religious movements like evangelical Christianity and reformist Islam or the spread of Western homosexual identities. This article...

...Irit Back Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Muslims and Christians in Nigeria: Attitudes towards the United States from a Post-September 11th Perspec- tive IRIT BACK One can argue that there is no clear-cut dichot- candidate of the People’s...

... literature. In Nigeria specifically, notable writers like Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Flora Nwapa, J. P. Clark, Christopher Okigbo, and Buchi Emecheta gave Nigerian literature worldwide acclaim. However, because the criticism of African literary criticism developed to a large extent as a reaction against...

...Sunila S. Kale Abstract The subjects of crime and corruption remain perennially important for social scientists concerned with the nature of power, authority, and order. Steven Pierce's Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria and Milan Vaishnav's When Crime...

...Ben Mendelsohn Eko Atlantic City in Lagos, Nigeria, is a human-constructed peninsula built from sand dredged off the continental shelf, imagined as a ten-square kilometer, semiautonomous, mixed-use district. While most scholarly analyses emphasize the project’s neoliberal development fantasies...

...Carolyn A. Brown © 1995: South Asia Bulletin 1995 Struggles over the Labor Process: Enugu Government Colliery, Nigeria during World War I1 Carolyn A. Brown As the only coal mine in West Africa...

...Philip S. Zachernuk The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria David Pratten Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 2007 xii + 425 pp., $49.95 (cloth) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis...

...Michael J. Watts Abstract Moral Economies of Corruption is an important intervention, and Steven Pierce provides an alternative way of viewing the long history of anticorruption programs in Nigeria. As Michael J. Watts' contribution discusses, there are a number of dangers that lurk...

.... Muslim elites forced the British to provide welfare for poor pilgrims who conducted the pilgrimage over land through Sudan and then undertook their own relief and reform as means to resist national integration with Southern Nigeria and bolster their reputation and influence in the Muslim world. Muslim...

...Milan Vaishnav Abstract The review essays by Sunila S. Kale, Sandipto Dasgupta, and Michael J. Watts on Milan Vaishnav's When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics and Steven Pierce's Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria raise a number...

..., and, to a lesser extent, Rio de Janeiro. The vast majority of Muslims in Brazil are Arab Middle Eastern immigrants from Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Territories or their descendants. There are also some African immigrants (from Senegal and Nigeria) and a small but growing number of Brazilian converts...

... were not free from the policies of the colonial government and Christian missionaries or the networks of black Atlantic educationalists. References Adebiyi Peter Awelewa . “ Coker, Jacob Kehinde (A): 1866 – 1945, the African Church of Nigeria .” Dictionary of African Christian Biography...

... and not forcing non-Western societies into Eurocentric heuristics. They also pose urgent questions about what might constitute grounded theories of governance and productive avenues for pushing for reform and change. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 corruption crime governance Nigeria...

... of the African has been analyzed by a host of dian history saw secondary duty in the narratives relat- scholars, from a variety of perspectives.’ Most of this ing the history of Northern Nigeria. The region was work, however, has focused in some way on the charac- pictured as part of Britain’s Muslim...

.... For couraging. In broad terms, liberalization of trade in our purpose, it suffices to point out that criticism of Nigeria, Zambia and Cote d’ Ivoire led directly to the IMF and World Bank inspired adjustment programs collapse of industrial production and the disengage- has centered on four main points...

.... have embodied an Islamic state in Sudan, formed Sharia-based states in northern Nigeria,         10.1215/1089201 University and turned violent in Egypt and Algeria during the past two decades. The literature has gen-      doi Duke     by erally...

...Jonathan T. Reynolds © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 Islam, Politics and Women’s Rights Jonathan T Reynolds From 1950 to 1966, politics in Nigeria’s predomi- political question, the debate itself was carried out al- nantly Muslim...

... power to maintain existing hierarchies of dominations against tides of democratic mobilization, not merely as a subversion of the public good, but in reaction to attempts to make goods public. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 corruption global South politics Nigeria India...

... by the report of the Manufacturers As- relationship which is aimed at perpetuating the impe- sociation of Nigeria (MAN) on the performance of Ni- rialist-imposed division of labor that restricts Africa to geria’s industrial sector in the first six months of 1989. the position of “hewers of wood...

... sities of postcolonial/third world location and else- “You taught me language . . .” assumes that Caliban where. As an academic located in India, working on and had no language earlier because he had no language that teaching the literature of Nigeria—two countries that Prospero could understand...