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Book Review

Corruption, language and popular agency

Review of Daniel E. Agbiboa, They Eat Our Sweat. Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 266 pp., £75.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780198861546

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