This book offers unique insights into elite Nigerian parents¿ engagement with, and use of, the international secondary education market as they attempt to retain their social standing - via their children - under today¿s shifting global conditions. Throughout, the book tackles two important, albeit uncomfortable questions: Why does whiteness hold the highest possible value in postcolonial societies such as Nigeria? And, more importantly, why do black people accept the hegemonic discourse that West/white is best? Combining the theoretical frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu and Frantz Fanon, the book reveals ¿Whiteness¿ as a highly valuable form of cultural and symbolic capital that plays a crucial role in the