Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria Jana Long To whom can he turn

To whom can he turn for sound strategic advice and support

without recourse to gods

and give them a sound basis for making the life-saving decisions required to manage their risks

even in our scientific age

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Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria Jana Long To whom can he turnIn 2003, Olufemi Vaughan received from his ninety five year old father, Abiodun, a trove of more than three thousand letters written by four generations of his family in Ibadan, Nigeria, between 1926 and 1994. The people who wrote these letters had emerged from the religious, social, and educational institutions established by the Church Missionary Society, the preeminent Anglican mission in the Atlantic Nigerian region following the imposition of