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    Moving east: explaining aspects of Nigerian trade to China
    (2018-05) Adebayo, K. O.; Omololu, F. O.
    This paper highlights the shortcoming in explanations offered for the movement of African transnational trade to China, drawing from secondary multidisciplinary scholarship on the history, settlement, and cross-border trade migration in Africa, with an emphasis on Nigeria suggesting that the eastward migration of African transnational traders is part of a larger socio-historical continuity and social change process in Africa. The work also posits that the move to China is an experientially cultivated industry that is increasingly changing from a local space to a global space.
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    Fuel subsidy in Nigeria: contexts of governance and social protest
    (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014) Akanle, O.; Adebayo, K.; Adetayo, O.
    Purpose – Fuel subsidy removal has become a recurring issue in Nigeria. Successive governments in the country have interfaced with this issue as they attempted to reform the economy and the petroleum downstream to reduce corruption and waste and make the sector more effective. Importantly however, fuel subsidy removals have always met opposition from the citizens and civil society organisations. The remit of this article is to bring original and current perspectives into the issue and trajectories of fuel subsidy, which has become a major problem in Nigeria’s development struggles. Previous works were dated and did not capture most recent popular uprising. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Purely primary, empirica and normative with primary insight. Findings – A major mechanism that must be put in place is popular and unpoliticized anti-corruption mechanisms and networks especially to sanitize the oil sector in the minimum. Also, government must demonstrate transparency and accountability across sectors and spending including at the government house. Sufficient palliatives like public transport and dedicated social services for the really poor is important before subsidy is implemented. Until these are done, government’s intention to successfully Remove Subsidy For Development (RS4D) may be a mirage! Research limitations/implications – This paper presents details of an international work with evolving issues. Originality/value – The paper argues that subsidy removal that will lead to high fuel prices appears unjustified given the wide income gap between workers in Nigeria and those in other oil-producing nations.
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    Fuel subsidy in Nigeria: contexts of governance and social protest
    (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014) Akanle, O.; Adebayo, K.; Adetayo, O.
    Purpose – Fuel subsidy removal has become a recurring issue in Nigeria. Successive governments in the country have interfaced with this issue as they attempted to reform the economy and the petroleum downstream to reduce corruption and waste and make the sector more effective. Importantly however, fuel subsidy removals have always met opposition from the citizens and civil society organisations. The remit of this article is to bring original and current perspectives into the issue and trajectories of fuel subsidy, which has become a major problem in Nigeria’s development struggles. Previous works were dated and did not capture most recent popular uprising. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Purely primary, empirica and normative with primary insight. Findings – A major mechanism that must be put in place is popular and unpoliticized anti-corruption mechanisms and networks especially to sanitize the oil sector in the minimum. Also, government must demonstrate transparency and accountability across sectors and spending including at the government house. Sufficient palliatives like public transport and dedicated social services for the really poor is important before subsidy is implemented. Until these are done, government’s intention to successfully Remove Subsidy For Development (RS4D) may be a mirage! Research limitations/implications – This paper presents details of an international work with evolving issues. Originality/value – The paper argues that subsidy removal that will lead to high fuel prices appears unjustified given the wide income gap between workers in Nigeria and those in other oil-producing nations.
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    Culture and the burden of being and development in Africa
    (Segundo Selo, 2020) Layiwola, D.
    This plenary chapter seeks to interrogate two conceptual issues behind the problems of cultural and political development either in Africa as a continent or in any of its disparate parts or countries, whether it is Nigeria, the Sudan, Gambia, Kenya, Zaire or Zimbabwe: culture and development. In so doing, it politically situates the context by adapting two definitional keywords: structure and culture. In the exposition on culture, society and development, I shall borrow arguments and definitions from Claude Ake's theory of political development, Peter Ekeh's theory of social development and cultural theorists like Sule Bello and lshola Williams. The chapter will point out how culture and political events have not worked together in Nigeria and Africa as it should to produce anticipated development; why Nigeria must engage creative thinking and basic praxis to overcome the problems of underdevelopment; and concludes on whether development is still possible under the present political structure and culture. The chapter concludes on the grim question of whether the present debacle in Nigeria and Africa is not already a closed predicament. Though it closes on a pessimistic note, the chapter indicates that the only ray of hope is to continue to interrogate our human condition as the existential movement does. This being that existence not only precedes essence but that concrete human action for development is almost always preceded by historical anguish and disaster such as we presently have. That a closed predicament amounts to where we are now on a continent so blessed with human and material resources and yet much abused and thoroughly managerially bastardized.