Drawing on firsthand experience, Daniel Jordan Smith paints a vivid portrait of Nigerian corruption, of nationwide fuel shortages in Africa's oil-producing giant, Internet cafés where the young launch their e-mail scams, checkpoints where drivers must bribe police, bogus organiza-tions that siphon development aid, and houses painted with the fraud-preventive words not for sale. Argues that it is impossible to comprehend Nigeria today, from vigilantism and resurgent ethnic nationalism to rising Pentecostalism and accusations of witchcraft and cannibalism, without understanding the role played by corruption and popular reactions to it. Index, bib, notes, apps, 263pp, USA. PRINCETON.

The various forms of Advance Fee Fraud make up a five-billion-US-dollar (1996 figures, now much more) worldwide scam, which has run since the early 1980s under successive governments of Nigeria. It is generally referred to as 419 Fraud (Four-One-Nine) or The Nigerian Connection. This book describes the problem, its origins, extent and various permutations. 236pp, USA. PUBLISH AMERICA.

Expose of the 419 scam, an aspect of transnational financial crime with a 'modus operandi' peculiar to the Nigerian swindler. 160pp, USA. iUNIVERSE.COM.

With warm hearts I offer my friendship, and my greetings, and I hope this letter meets you in good time... To most of us, the letters are an irritant. To Michael Berry, they are a call to arms. For the last five years, he has replied to the scammers emails, expressing an interest in their propositions and then spending days, weeks, even months leading them down the garden path with his hilarious requests and misunderstandings. He's had them selling paintings to Del Trotter Antiques, writing out by hand an entire Harry Potter novel, booking expensive hotels for Gillian Anderson, posing with fish on their hands to prove their sincerity. His revenges are funny, often savage and, as he reminds us, wholly justified - these people are heartless thieves. 512pp, UK. HARBOUR BOOKS.

New edition, originally published in 1999. Historian, pro-democracy activist and prolific author confronts the systematic looting of the resources of a modern state. Explores the decadent world of military dictators and their civilian collaborators, their strategies and ruthlessness, and exposes the vast fortunes hidden away in the world's banking capitals. App, bib, index, xiii, 199pp. NIGERIA. FOURTH DIMENSION PUBLISHING CO.LTD, 978156511X

Papers cover and present solutions for: the political economy of corruption; the Nigerian state as an instrument of corruption; corruption and the challenges of development; and underdevelopment and corruption. BNS, 112pp, NIGERIA. FOURTH DIMENSION PUBLISHING CO.LTD, 9781564857