Tyrants: Why Nigerian Love Obeying Them

ut of a population of about 180 million, Nigeria has 360 members of the House of Representatives, 109 senators, 36 governors and one president. How is it possible that this group of around less than a thousand people manage to rule over and extract the vast majority of resources available in the country? The sixteenth-century French lawyer, Étienne de La Boétie, pondered a similar question in his treatise on tyranny, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of V

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