Children and Childhood in Colonial Nigerian Histories [electronic resource] /
Aderinto, S.editor.
This book brings together the newest and the most innovative scholarship on Nigerian children—one of the least researched groups in African colonial history. It engages the changing conceptions of childhood, relating it to the broader themes about modernity, power, agency, and social transformation under imperial rule.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Note on Contributors; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Colonialism and the Invention of Modern Nigerian Childhood; CHAPTER 1 Researching Colonial Childhoods:; CHAPTER 2 Processing Juvenile Delinquents at the Salvation Army's Boys' Industrial Home in Lagos, 1925-1944; CHAPTER 3 Children's Masquerade: Performance and Creativity in Benin City; CHAPTER 4 "500 Children Missing in Lagos":; CHAPTER 5 "A World of Good to Our Boys":
CHAPTER 6 The Colonial Office and the Employment of Children in the Nigerian Tin Mines in the 1950sCHAPTER 7 Framing the Colonial Child:; CHAPTER 8 Within Salvation: Girl Hawkers and the Colonial State in Development Era Lagos; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book brings together the newest and the most innovative scholarship on Nigerian children—one of the least researched groups in African colonial history. It engages the changing conceptions of childhood, relating it to the broader themes about modernity, power, agency, and social transformation under imperial rule.
Imperialism.
Africa—History.
History, Modern.
Social history.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
African History.
Modern History.
Social History.