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Corruption complaints, inequality and ethnic grievances in post-Biafra Nigeria

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Based on anthropological field work in southeastern Nigeria, this paper explores the public concerns and everyday experience of corruption in a society still living with the legacies of the Biafran secession attempt. The paper shows how the revival of Igbo nationalism and resentment over perceived marginalisation is fuelled by perceptions that the corrupt machinery of the federal government runs against the interests of the Igbo people, and funnels resources away from the southeast as punishment for the failed separatist struggle more than 40 years ago. Hence, complaints about corruption are used to critique the Nigerian state and other regional or ethnic groups, but they also figure in an internally focused critique by Igbos of their own complicity in Nigeria’s endemic corruption.

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  • Daniel Jordan Smith, 2014. "Corruption complaints, inequality and ethnic grievances in post-Biafra Nigeria," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(5), pages 787-802, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:35:y:2014:i:5:p:787-802
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2014.921430
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    1. Abbas, Hafiz Syed Mohsin & Xu, Xiaodong & Sun, Chunxia, 2023. "Dynamics of group grievances from a global cohesion perspective," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 87(PB).
    2. Gutu O. Wayessa & Anja Nygren, 2023. "Mixed Methods Research in Global Development Studies: State-Sponsored Resettlement Schemes in Ethiopia," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 35(6), pages 1440-1464, December.
    3. Kanti Pertiwi & Susan Ainsworth, 2021. "“Democracy is the Cure?”: Evolving Constructions of Corruption in Indonesia 1994–2014," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 173(3), pages 507-523, October.

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