Money Struggles and City Life: Devaluation in Ibadan and Other Urban Centers in Southern Nigeria, 1986-1996

Money Struggles and City Life: Devaluation in Ibadan and Other Urban Centers in Southern Nigeria, 1986-1996

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Book Description
This study examines the operations of the popular economy and social life of southern Nigerian people under the incoherent conditions that followed Nigeria's first currency devaluation in 1986.

About the Author
JANE I. GUYER is an economic anthropologist trained at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Rochester. She has carried out extensive field research in Nigeria and Cameroon and has published widely on changing rural economies, including Family and Farm in Southern Cameroon, Feeding African Cities (an edited collection), and numerous articles. Currently director of the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University, she has held regular faculty positions at Boston University and Harvard University and has also taught in Cameroon. LARAY DENZER teaches at Northwestern University where she is a member of the Program of African Studies. ADIGUN AGBAJE is a member of the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Money Struggles and City Life: Devaluation in Ibadan and Other Urban Centers in Southern Nigeria, 1986-1996,Jane I. Guyer,LaRay Denzer,Adigun Agbaje,Heinemann,0325070652,Business & Economics,Business/Economics,Economic conditions,Ethnic Issues,Ethnic Studies - General,Finance,Inflation,Money,Nigeria, Southern,Social conditions,Sociology,Sociology - General,Social Science / Ethnic Studies

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