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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2020
The threads of violence and deceit laced into Nigerian life were not there from the beginning. Some of them were woven in by colonialism and some by events in the more recent past – oil, austerity, militarism, and a rancorous turn to liberal democracy among them. All played their parts in making Nigeria a “counterfeit country,” as one polemicist called it. Yet independent Nigeria can only be fully understood in the frame of war, and this is especially true for the history of crime. Crime pervaded Nigerian life during this time, warping Nigeria’s internal affairs and its place in the world. It gave the country what Pius Adesanmi called a “stubbornly unrebrandable” bad reputation – one that it still struggles to shake off. As this book has argued, that reputation is the residue of war.
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