Authority Stealing: Anti-Corruption War and Democratic Politics in Post-Military Nigeria

摘要

Wale Adebanwi has written an important and illuminating account of Nigeria's anti-corruption war during Nuhu Ribadu's courageous leadership of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Ribadu's tenure coincided with Obasanjo's second term as president from 2003-7. The book also covers the Yar'Adua government's removal of Ribadu from the EFCC and its undermining of die anti-corruption struggle, from 2007-10. The title of the book, 'Authority Stealing', refers to the grand corruption of those in positions of authority in Nigeria. It comes from a song of the same title by the late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, renowned Afro-beat musician and scathing critic of the corrupt Nigerian political establishment.