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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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Geographic patterns of the climate sensitivity of lakes
Climate change is a well-recognized threat to lake ecosystems and, although there likely exists geographic variation in the sensitivity of lakes to climate, broad-scale, longterm studies are needed to understand this variation. Further, the potential mediating role of local to regional ecological context on these responses is not well documented. In this study, we examined relationships between climate and water clarity in 365 lakes from 1981 to 2010 in two distinct regions in the northeastern and midwestern United States. We asked (1) How do climate–water-clarity relationships vary across watersheds and between two geographic regions? and (2) Do certain characteristics make some lakes more climate sensitive than others? We found strong differences in climate–water-clarity relationships both within and across the two regions. For example, in the northeastern region, water clarity was often negatively correlated with summer precipitation (median correlation = −0.32, n = 160 lakes), but was not correlated with summer average maximum temperature (median correlation = 0.09, n = 205 lakes). In the midwestern region, water clarity was not related to summer precipitation (median correlation = −0.04), but was often negatively correlated with summer average maximum temperature (median correlation = −0.18). There were few strong relationships between local and sub-regional ecological context and a lake’s sensitivity to climate. For example, ecological context variables explained just 16–18% of variation in summer precipitation sensitivity, which was most related to total phosphorus, chlorophyll a, lake depth, and hydrology in both regions. Sensitivity to summer maximum temperature was even less predictable in both regions, with 4% or less of variation explained using all ecological context variables. Overall, we identified differences in the climate sensitivity of lakes across regions and found that local and sub-regional ecological context weakly influences the sensitivity of lakes to climate. Our findings suggest that local to regional drivers may combine to influence the sensitivity of lake ecosystems to climate change, and that sensitivities among lakes are highly variable within and across regions. This variability suggests that lakes are sensitive to different aspects of climate change (temperature vs. precipitation) and that responses of lakes to climate are heterogeneous and complex.
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Case study of a model primary health care program in Nigeria: History, evolution, challenges, and future perspectives
This short report describes the historical evolution of a pioneer Model PHC programme located in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria, as a direct result of the vision and effort of Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, and his drive to entrench the delivery of primary health care (PHC) in Nigeria. It describes some of the programmes inspired by the PHC philosophy at the Model PHC Centre, some of the challenges faced over the years, and the need to reposition the programme. It exemplifies key principles in PHC and its philosophy that are instructive for health practitioners, policymakers and development practitioners, especially those with interest in resource-poor countries.
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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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Littoral Piracy in Colonial Nigeria: The Lagos Lagoon in The Interwar Years
The antiquity of piracy in Nigeria's coastal waters has been traced to the precolonial period, especially the nineteenth century. However, the period of British colonial rule, specifically, the interwar years, has been neglected in the literature. This paper examines piracy on the Lagos Lagoon during the interwar years in the framework of concurrent concepts of piracy. It contributes to the literature on piracy by reclassifying piratical acts in association with specific water bodies. Hence, this case study of \"littoral piracy\" is situated in the geography, population movements, economic activities, and colonial policing in the Lagos Lagoon system. Several incidents reported between 1918 and 1937 highlight the incidence of piracy, the attendant human and material toll, the consequent police operations, and judicial adjudication of these incidents. The paper demonstrates how littoral piracy evolved as organized (state-backed) and haphazard (freelance) enterprises in changing contexts of contested and uncontested hegemonies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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