Lagos
Subtitle: city of the imagination
By: Kaye Whiteman
Publisher: Cassava Republic Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Abuja, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9789785078398
Subjects: Description and travel; History; Biography; Travel
Notes: "This book Lagos: City of the Imagination is a new edition, from Cassava Republic Press, of a work originally published in 2012 by Signal Books of Oxford with the title Lagos: a Cultural and Historical Companion."--Page ix.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Chapter One: The story of Lagos, evolution of a multi-ethnic gene pool; title: Chapter Two: The topography of Lagos: island and mainland; title: Chapter Three: Changing society and the "look" of the city; title: Chapter Four: A true city of the imagination: Lagos in literature; title: Chapter Five: Music, film, art and the havens in the wilderness; title: Chapter Six: Stories to remember: a selection of episodes in the city's history; title: Chapter Seven: The long shadow of Festac; title: Chapter Eight: Prominent personalities of Lagos; title: Chapter Nine: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti archetypal Lagos boy; title: Chapter Ten: Streets of the imagination: everyday mysteries of the city; title: Chapter Eleven: The future city?; title: Appendix: Treaty of cession of August 1861.