Daniel E Agbiboa

They Eat Our Sweat

Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria

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Produktbeschreibung

They Eat Our Sweat examines the corruption complex in Africa in the context of transportion. Focusing on Lagos, Nigeria, Agbiboa shows that corruption is driven by the imperatives of urban economic competition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780198861546
• ISBN-10: 0198861540
• Artikelnr.: 62535315

Autorenporträt

Daniel E. Agbiboa is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He earned a PhD in International Development from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the relationships between state and nonstate actors in contemporary Africa. He is the recipient of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award, and is a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His books include Transport, Transgression and Politics in African Cities: The Rhythm of Chaos (Routledge, 2018), and People, Predicaments and Potentials in Africa (Langaa RPCIG, 2021). He has authored articles in leading journals such as Public Culture, Current History, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, African Studies Review, African Affairs, and Journal of Modern African Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Rethinking Corruption
1. Corruption and the Crisis of Values
2. The Language of Corruption
3. The Politics of Informal Transport
4. The Art of Urban Survival
5. Nigeria's Transport Mafia
6. The Paradox of Urban Reform
Conclusion: Learning from Corruption