Showing posts with label Anti-corruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anti-corruption. Show all posts
Thursday, December 05, 2019
Saturday, April 06, 2019
Academics Research Corruption Using Nollywood
(By Yomi Kazeem) - The Nollywood Movie Experiment to Research
Nigerians’ Anti-corruption Behavior
The popularity of Nigeria’s
Nollywood movie industry—the world’s second largest by volume—was covertly
deployed for a social cause five years ago.
Researchers from Princeton
University, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) collaborated to commission a
feature film to test local habits on reporting corruption. The research for the
movie, which was funded by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and an
anonymous donor, was approved by the Princeton Institutional Review Board.
Given the popularity of
the local movie industry and the prevalence
of corruption in Nigeria, the researchers looked to study how
Nigerians report corruption using the high-profile actors to model behavior.
Nigeria’s corruption problems are
well-documented with a landmark survey two years capturing the scale of
corruption especially among
public officers. Despite his well-publicized anti-corruption stance
and message in office, Nigeria’s president Buhari has struggled to definitely
address the problem with his administration suffering
corruption-related scandals of its own.
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