Popular Reactions to the Petro-Naira

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Title:	Popular Reactions to the Petro-Naira
Author:	Barber, Karin
Year:	1982
Periodical:	Journal of Modern African Studies
Volume:	20
Issue:	3
Period:	September
Pages:	431-450
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	wealth petroleum drama Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Economics and Trade
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/160526
Abstract:	The implications of the spectacularly expanded flow of oil revenue into Nigeria for development, the growth of a commercial capitalism, and for a more defined class structure, are rather well known. Less known, however, is how the ordinary people of Nigeria react to the floods of petro-naira which they themselves cannot reach. Fortunes are being made out of oil, but the living conditions of the rural and urban masses deteriorate as agriculture declines and the urban centres become overcrowded with the jobless and the impoverished. For an understandig of what is actually going on in Nigeria today the analysis of the attitudes of the ordinary people to the petro-naira is no less important than that of the hard economic data. Sections: Popular attitudes, popular theatre - Work, wealth, and the petro-naira - Two plays and their 'ideological projects' - The silences. Notes.