Digital panhandling or new-age entrepreneurship? How Nigerians are manipulating TikTok’s gifting economy

At 1:00 a.m. in a cramped bedroom in Lagos, the blue light of a smartphone illuminates the face of ‘Amina’ (not her real name). She isn’t scrolling through memes or catching up on news. She is ‘live’. To her audience of 3,000 viewers, she is a performer. The comments scroll past at a frenzied speed,

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