A culture of dread: Nigeria’s post-cosmopolitanism, By Jibrin Ibrahim
It is true that the village has been transplanted into the city but at the same time, new forms of bonding and differentiation are being created – new social networks are needed to provide comfort and emergency relief to those in distress; new lucrative spheres for accumulation, both legal and criminal, are being created – and for all of these and more, the religious sphere provides the most effective framework.
The village is transferred to the new urban centres but it’s a new village whose culture is being transformed through satellite television, cassettes, then video and now the social media.
Increasingly, it is the religious actors who are the social agents that provide meaning for the new and difficult conditions of life in the squatter towns.
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