“Look, you have to understand that lying and deceiving are not moral issues in everyday life here, they are just tools, survival tools. Compunction is not even an option, because you would need to think of these issues first as moral. And many of our people just don’t. When Nigerians talk of moral issues they really mean sex, and some of the more high-minded mean corruption. But there’s a kind of amorality in everyday hypocrisies and pretenses, because they are just survival tools.
