Daniel Jordan Smith

To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job

Masculinity, Money, and Intimacy in Nigeria

From boys to men: learning to love women and money -- Expensive intimacies: courtship, marriage, and fatherhood -- "Money problem": work, class, consu...

A Culture of Corruption

Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria

E-mails proposing an "urgent business relationship" help make fraud Nigeria's largest source of foreign revenue after oil. But scams are also a centra...

Every Household Its Own Government

Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria

Empty pipes and H2O entrepreneurs: boreholes, cart pushers, and "pure water" -- Problem has changed name": electric power and consumer citizenship -- ...

Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria

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AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face

Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria

AIDS and Africa are indelibly linked in popular consciousness, but despite widespread awareness of the epidemic, much of the story remains hidden bene...

Having People

Fertility, Family, and Modernity in Igbo-speaking Nigeria

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