International records / OpenAlex research

Between Culture and Poverty: The Queen Mother Phenomenon and the Edo International Sex Trade

How valid in contemporary times is the reproduction and re-enactment of a glorious cultural past when such has the capacity of masking the material conditions of contemporary existence? This is the main question addressed by this research. The study attempts to evaluate the interface of cultural nationalism and prevailing social and material conditions in a particular Nigerian society. The city of Benin in Edo state of Nigeria has become the hub of the international sex trade in Africa's most populous nation. On the premise that the issue of prostitution and how to solve the problem transcends…