What Is Nigeria? Unsettling the Myth of Exceptionalism

This article explores perceptions and representations of Nigeria and Nigerians in the popular global imaginary. It analyses selected popular media narratives in order to foreground contradictions and paradoxes in the ways in which the country and people of Nigeria are discursively constructed. By do...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aghogho Akpome
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Africa Spectrum
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Online Access:http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/829