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Histories of dirt : media and urban life in colonial and postcolonial Lagos
\"HISTORIES OF DIRT IN WEST AFRICA is a historical and cultural approach to the study of dirt in relation to public health, governance, and daily life in urban West Africa. While in the Anglophone world dirt is evoked to denote a problem, Stephanie Newell broadens dirt as an interpretive category to move beyond the fixation on purity and cleanliness to encompass understandings of, and interactions with, dirt as a dimension of urbanization. Newell thus situates her study of dirt between the failings of colonial interpretations of dirt and the multifaceted connotations of dirt in the West African context. Through archival work, she asserts that dirt structured colonial understandings of public health, which then gradually enabled a discourse through which hygiene policies under the British Annexation of Lagos were set--the same logic that enabled racial segregation in the name of public health. Newell reads the deep history of \"sanitary salvation,\" or the set of related public health initiatives meant to enable clean and healthy colonial subjects, against present-day discussions concerning health, well-being, and daily life in West African cities.
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Slavery and the Birth of an African City
As the slave trade entered its last, illegal phase in the 19th century,
the town of Lagos on West Africa's Bight of Benin became one of the most important
port cities north of the equator. Slavery and the Birth of an African City explores
the reasons for Lagos's sudden rise to power. By linking the histories of
international slave markets to those of the regional suppliers and slave traders,
Kristin Mann shows how the African slave trade forever altered the destiny of the
tiny kingdom of Lagos. This magisterial work uncovers the relationship between
African slavery and the growth of one of Africa's most vibrant cities.
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Livelihood in colonial Lagos
\"This book bridges gaps in the historical record of the lived experience of the people of Lagos. It utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to reconstruct the urban history of Lagos with thick descriptions of how Lagosians across social class, gender, location, ethnicity, and even race negotiated their livelihoods in the city\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Making Modern Girls
In Making Modern Girls, Abosede A. George examines the influence of African social reformers and the developmentalist colonial state on the practice and ideology of girlhood as well as its intersection with child labor in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Lagos
Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, expected in some projections to have a population of 25 million by 2025. This will make it the biggest metropolis in sub-Saharan Africa and possibly the world's third largest city. This phenomenal and continuing growth gives it a heady turbulence, especially as it only took on the form of a coherent urban entity in the eighteenth century. After Nigeria's independence Lagos remained both trading hub and, for thirty years, a federal capital and political vortex. Now its driving sense of 'can-do', its outreach and vitality, make it a fulcrum and a channel for commercial and cultural talent. Kaye Whiteman explores a city that has constantly re-invented itself, from the first settlement on an uninhabited island to the creation of the port in the early years of the twentieth century. Lagos is still defined by its curious network of islands and lagoons, where erosion and reclamation lead to a permanently shifting topography, but his.
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The carnivorous city
Rabato Sabato, aka, Soni Dike, is a criminal turned grandee, with a beautiful wife, an exclusive mansion on Victoria Island and a questionable fortune. Then one day he disappears. His Jag is found in a ditch, music blaring from the speakers. Soni's older brother, Abel Dike, a small-town teacher arrives to join the search for his sibling. Abel is rapidly sucked into the maelstrom of Lagos: he has to navigate the motley cast of common criminals, deal with the policemen intent on grabbing a piece of the pie, and grapple wth his growing desire for his brothers wife.
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The farming ritual and the rice metaphor: how people of Kasepuhan Sinarresmi worship rice
AbstractRice is the most important staple food in the world, and its management is therefore of vital importance. Rice management of the people of Kasepuhan Sinarresmi, Sukabumi Regency West Java, Indonesia is symbolized in cultural practices of farming. Little attention has been paid to the rice metaphor in farming rituals that reveal the cognition of people in rice management. This article, therefore, aims to elucidate the farming ritual that reveals the cognition of the people of Kasepuhan Sinarresmi in dealing with rice. With a qualitative method in nature, the data were collected from observations and interviews with the leader of the kasepuhan. Being one of the ethnicities in Indonesia, Sundanese people in Kasepuhan Sinarresmi have demonstrated their cultural practices that worship rice and its goddess, Dewi Sri. Dewi Sri is believed to provide a good life and an abundant rice crop for the people. Some research claims that cognition affects behavior, and in the same notion we argue that the cognition of the people of Kasepuhan Sinarresmi manifested and constructed in the farming ritual influences the way the people treat rice that yields in rice metaphor. Implementing this, the people of this kasepuhan manage to be self-sufficient in rice.
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The Pan-African nation
When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African Nation tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria's spectacular rebirth as a rapidly developing petro-state to its dramatic demise when the boom went bust. According to Apter, FESTAC expanded the horizons of blackness in Nigeria to mirror the global circuits of its economy. By showcasing masks, dances, images, and souvenirs from its many diverse ethnic groups, Nigeria forged a new national culture. In the grandeur of this oil-fed confidence, the nation subsumed all black and African cultures within its empire of cultural signs and erased its colonial legacies from collective memory. As the oil economy collapsed, however, cultural signs became unstable, contributing to rampant violence and dissimulation. The Pan-African Nation unpacks FESTAC as a historically situated mirror of production in Nigeria. More broadly, it points towards a critique of the political economy of the sign in postcolonial Africa.
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