The politics of plunder: the rhetorics of order and disorder in Southern Nigeria

This article looks at four cases of youth‐led identity‐based social movements in Benin City and in the Annang area of southern Nigeria. It shows how each of these movements — youth associations, ‘area boys’, vigilantes and campus cults — draws on different, older repertoires of discourse and organiz...

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Main Authors: Gore, C, Pratten, D
Format: Journal article
Published: Oxford University Press 2003