Nigeria
Africa's largest economy and its hardest frontier market: oil revenue, multiple exchange rates, fuel subsidies and a large consumer base that repeatedly disappoints on execution.
6 books
Start here
- This House Has FallenKarl Maier, 2000
- The Looting MachineTom Burgis, 2015
- Reforming the UnreformableNgozi Okonjo-Iweala, 2012
Books 6
Karl Maier · 2000 · The standard account of why the Nigerian state underdelivers.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala · 2012 · Insider account by the finance minister who ran the debt deal and reforms.
Tom Burgis · 2015 · How resource rents are extracted across Africa, with Nigeria at the centre.
Michael Peel · 2010 · The Niger Delta oil economy reported at ground level.
Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga, Georges Desvaux · 2018 · McKinsey's operator-level view of building companies across the continent.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala · 2018 · The same author on what happened when the reforms were resisted.