president of Nigeria and becoming the richest man in the world so that he “can reach out to the people who have no livelihood” (interview, 11 December 2014). He is a self-taught designer of shoes and bags and manufactures his colorful products in his
Made in Nigeria
Duress and Upwardly Mobile Youth in the Biography of a Young Entrepreneur in Enugu
Inge Ligtvoet
Crafting Spaces of Value
Infrastructure, Technologies of Extraction and Contested Oil in Nigeria
Omolade Adunbi
In 2011, Nigeria announced an amnesty programme targeted at Niger Delta insurgents who, for many years, had crippled the oil industry. The programme was designed to end in 2012, but it has since become a permanent feature of the Nigerian state
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 38–52
Mofeyisara Oluwatoyin Omobowale, Offiong Esop Akpabio, and Olukemi Kehinde Amodu
Masculinity, as an identity signifier along gender lines, varies from one society to another. The nature, definition, and expression of masculinity (dominance, oppression, violence, and aggression) through social interactions may breed bullying, as found in the Agbowo community of Ibadan, Nigeria. The data for the study were collected through mixed methods and revealed that patriarchal constructed masculinity allows for hegemonic dominance, aggression, oppression, and violent acts that foster bullying among adolescent males in Agbowo. Hence, to address bullying-related problems among adolescents, an understanding of the societal context in which it is carried out is required.
Medical Ethnography over Time
Penetrating “the fog of health” in a Nigerian community, 1970–2017
Murray Last
Medical ethnography, I suggest, is more about the health of the public than about public health, but the experience of the public's health is enveloped, for Nigerian and expatriate practitioners alike, in a ‘fog’ which sorely limits their
Alessandro Jedlowski
individual social practices to the macro level of social and anthropological theory. 13 The case this article focuses on is the story of a Nigerian couple’s (attempted) itinerary of return migration from Italy to Nigeria, and the analysis of the role played
Regional integration from “below” in West Africa
A study of transboundary town-twinning of Idiroko (Nigeria) and Igolo (Benin)
Olukayode A. Faleye
This study examines the nexus between space and society in West Africa using the Nigeria–Benin borderlands as a case study. Indeed, governmental institutions in the region have used the state as the major unit of policy formulation thereby
A “Safe Space” to Debate Colonial Legacy
The University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Campaign to Return a Looted Benin Altarpiece to Nigeria
Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp and Chris Wingfield
On 18 February 2016, following a debate of nearly two hours, members of the Jesus College Student Union (JCSU) at the University of Cambridge voted unanimously to support the repatriation to Nigeria of a bronze cockerel, known as Okukor, which at
Politicizing Elsewhere(s)
Negotiating Representations of Neo-Pentecostal Aesthetic Practice in Berlin
Dominik Mattes
focused on Berlin's congregation of the Deeper Life Bible Church (or Deeper Life). This Pentecostal church started out in 1973 as a small Bible studies group in Lagos, Nigeria, led by then lecturer of mathematics William Kumuyi. Over the years, it managed
Introduction
Anthropological Knowledge and Practice in Global Health
Rodney Reynolds and Isabelle L. Lange
problems. In the final contribution, Murray Last reflects on his 50-year anthropological career amongst the Hausa in northern Nigeria. By describing what he asked, what he wanted to know and how he navigated his identity in the community where he lived as
Tracking Skilled Diasporas
Globalization, Brain Drain, and the Postcolonial Condition in Nigeria
Nduka Otiono
This essay examines the trajectories of skilled labor migrants within a global South-North migration matrix using an interdisciplinary framework. Focusing on Nigeria's huge brain drain phenomenon, the essay draws from the limited available data on the field, interpreting those data through theoretical perspectives from postcolonial studies, Marxism, cultural studies, and human geography. The study spotlights the example of the United States of America as a receptacle of skilled migrants and raises questions of social justice along the North-South divide. The research demonstrates that contrary to the dominant image promoted by some elements in the Western media of migrants as irritants or criminals who disturb well-cultivated, advanced World economies and social spaces, 1 those nations benefit highly from Africa's (and other migrant countries') labor diasporas, especially the highly skilled professionals.