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"Diese Studie untersucht die Wechselfälle der gegenwärtigen sino-nigerianischen Handelsbeziehungen, indem der phänomenale Aufschwung des chinesischen Handels mit Nigeria im Bereich der Strömungen des Neoliberalismus artikuliert und kontextualisiert wird. Weiterhin wird die diversifizierte Natur der chinesischen Investitionen in Nigeria in den Bereichen Transport, Öl und Gas, Landwirtschaft, Kommunikation und Vertrieb erkundet. Die Arbeit legt dar, dass China sich an Nigerias natürlichen Ressourcen gütlich tut, um den massiven industriellen Komplex Chinas anzutreiben, während es gleichzeitig eine Politik der De-Industrialisierung in strategischen Teilen der nigerianischen Wirtschaft verfolgt. Der Aufsatz kommt zu dem Schluss, dass chinesische Investitionen im Bereich der Infrastrukturentwicklung zwar zentral für Nigerias sozio-ökonomische Entwicklung scheinen mögen, dass gleichzeitig aber die verzerrten Handelsbeziehungen, die Nigeria in einen Abladeplatz für chinesische Industriegüter verwandelt haben, Nigerias junge Industrien verwüstet und die Entwicklung von Nigerias einheimischen Unternehmen im Keim erstickt haben." (Autorenreferat)

This article provides an introduction to the Special Issue entitled, "Views from the Shoreline: Community, trade and religion in coastal Yorubaland and the Western Niger Delta." Introducing the 19 articles in this Special Issue, which cover the coastal stretch from Ikorodu (near Lagos) to Ore-Isi (Urhoboland) and Benin, the article maps out how the coast's lack of centralization, its complex settlement histories, and its underrepresentation in government and mainstream mission archives may be addressed by using multi-methods approaches and in-depth fieldwork. It emphasizes both the high mobility and heterogeneity of coastal communities and illustrates the diverse ways in which local leaders have mobilized a range of resources – including Islam, traditional practice, and especially Christianity – to ensure individual wellbeing and to affirm or re-shape local boundaries and hierarchies. This article argues that the study of the coast, like that of other borderlands, affirms that both mixing and the assertion of difference are constitutive of the political economy of the area.

Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since 9/11, religion has become an increasingly important factor of personal and group identification. Based on an African case study, this book calls for new ways of thinking about diversity that go "beyond religious tolerance". Focusing on the predominantly Muslim Yoruba town of Ede, the authors challenge the assumption that religious difference automatically leads to conflict: in south-west Nigeria, Muslims, Christians and traditionalists have co-existed largely peacefully since the early twentieth century. In some contexts, Ede's citizens emphasise the importance and significance of religious difference, and the need for tolerance. But elsewhere they refer to religious boundaries in passing, or even celebrate and transcend religious divisions. Drawing on detailed ethnographic and historical research, survey work, oral histories and poetry by UK- and Nigeria- based researchers, the book examines how Ede's citizens experience religious difference in their everyday lives.It examines the town's royal history and relationship with the deity Sango, its old Islamic compounds and its Christian institutions, as well as marriage and family life across religious boundaries, to illustrate the multiplicity of religious practices in the life of the town and its citizens and to suggest an alternative approach to religious difference