Query: colonial lagos

title: The Colonial Lagos Boy in the Ibadan Archives: a Review of the Structural Context
abstract: This paper examines the structural context of urbanity in the daily lives of boys in colonial Lagos. Particularly, it aims to underscore the ways in which their testaments, as conveyed in their petitions, point to the structural composition of livelihood and how they presented urbanity, poverty, fatherhood, employment, benefaction, education, servanthood, the state and the 'interiority complex' that reflected their personhood in the period a phenomenon that remains inadequately interrogated in existing works. What is also significant here is the attention paid to the words of the boys as they constructed the generic conditions that their specific expressions point to. Here, in addition to livelihood matters, it is the way in which their words present the teenage boy in the period referred to by the correspondences that serve as the data for the analysis that is presented. Thus, this article focuses on the facts as presented showing the manner in which boyhood was portrayed in the very words of the boys themselves.

title: Qur'anic Scholarships in Post Colonial Lagos: A Study of Contributions of Shaykh Adam 'Abdullah al Ilory (1917 1992)
abstract: October 18, 2019  November 16, 2019  2019 Volume: 2 Issue: 7 DOI: 10.32996/ijllt.2019.2.7.18 Islam, perhaps hardly been found in any area without existing of Islamic education and Lagos was no exception. Therefore, the advent of Islam in Lagos has resulted to the spread of Arabic Islamic education everywhere. The Qur'anic education, which is the essential part of Islam started immediately by an informal method. Later, during the Post Colonial era, the Qur'anic education witnessed tremendous development and growth by of one the oftenacclaimed greatest Islamic scholars called Shaykh Adam Abdullah al Ilory, who situated his Arabic school; Arabic and Islamic Training in Agege area of Lagos, as Quranic Center. So, it is the interest of this paper to assess his contributions to the Qur'anic scholarship, highlights some challenges and provides useful suggestions for the improvement. The research adopted descriptive and historical methods, which assist in presenting a comprehensive x ray of his contributions to the Qur'anic education in Islam and Lagos society in particular.

title: Theft in Early Colonial Lagos, 1861 1906

title: Reforming Girlhood in Colonial Lagos

title: The 'Girl Hawking War' in Colonial Lagos
abstract: Beginning in the late 1930s, there was a growing concern about the increase in the number of "girl hawkers" on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria. Although hawking of wares was a traditional occupation for boys and girls, by the late 1930s, it was clearly linked to prostitution. Girls as young as nine years of age were being lured into prostitution. This chapter explores the efforts of the colonial government in association with local women's groups to prevent girls from working as prostitutes. These efforts included the creation of a social welfare system, the establishment of juvenile courts, and provisions for the training of girls as domestic servants.

title: Transcultural tension and the politics of sewage management in (post) colonial Lagos
abstract: The culture of sewage management in Lagos dates back to pit latrines (Shalanga) in precolonial Lagos; this culture gave way to bucket latrines in the wake of British colonial administration in Lagos and then to mobile toilets in postcolonial Lagos. The introduction of bucket latrines created a new job category known as Agbepo (night soil men) and a new material practice in the management of faecal waste among ethnicities and races inhabiting the urban space of Lagos. This material practice, I argue, created ethnic tensions and reveals the extent to which varying perceptions of sewage management determine how people perceive and relate with one another in Lagos. To validate my argument, my paper proceeds from the vantage point of the phenomenology of disgust, drawing on Chinua Achebe's No Longer at Ease, archival materials, and selected live interviews to examine how varying perceptions of sewage management play out in the construction of relationships in Lagos.

title: The politics of the public sphere English language and Yoruba language print culture in colonial Lagos, 1880s 1940s

title: The British mosquito eradication campaign in colonial Lagos, 1902 1950
abstract: The impact of malaria on the demography of European settlers in Lagos from the mid nineteenth century posed a serious threat to British imperialism in Nigeria. This prompted the British administration to take vigorous measures to address the unsanitary conditions within Lagos, a major causation of the disease. This paper examines the colonial programmes on the eradication of mosquitos in Lagos, the colonial capital of Nigeria. It highlights the political and economic implications of this programme, and the responses of African colonial subjects to the initiative. The government adopted divergent solutions, ranging from racial segregation to swamp reclamation. However, each of these had a downside. Segregation policies, at a time of growing nationalism among an increasingly politically conscious African educated class, would breed political unrest. Swamp reclamation, on the other hand, would require seizing privately owned land and depriving fishermen and wood collectors who earned a living by exploiting the resources of these swamps, critical for their survival and for the colony's coffers. When the colonial administration finally settled on swamp reclamation, it faced the problem of cost that needed to be balanced with the sacrosanct principle that colonies should be self sustaining economies and not be a burden to the metropolis. Existing studies have overlooked the resistance or reaction of Lagosians to swamp clearance and forest ordinance. The paper relies on a combination of primary, secondary and oral sources, including a body of archival documents and some interviews.

title: "Africa for the Africans?" Mapmaking, Lagos, and the Colonial Archive
abstract: In early colonial Lagos, struggles over race, place and identity were played out over ownership of land, and ended with the displacement of sections of the indigenous population. "Africa for the Africans" combines texts and maps to narrate the history of 1860s Lagos. This article demonstrates how, with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) European colonial maps can be used to analyze the significance of changing urban spatial relationships in 1860s Lagos. Though much of this analysis employs GIS, it also leans heavily on other tools for making timelines, story maps and vector diagrams. This process of creating digital representations of the past also has pedagogical applications, as these methods can be extended to the classroom for undergraduates learning about African history.

title: Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos
abstract: Stephanie Newell's Histories of Dirt examines the cultural symbolism of dirt and its relationship with knowledge and power in colonial and postcolonial Lagos. Newell raises questions on the viabili.