Children and childhood in colonial Nigerian histories
By: edited by Saheed Aderinto
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781137501622
Subjects: Children; History; Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: colonialism and the invention of modern Nigerian childhood  -- by Saheed Aderinto; title: Researching colonial childhoods: images and representations of children in Nigerian newspaper press, 1925-1950  -- by Saheed Aderinto; title: Processing juvenile delinquents at the Salvation Army's boys' industrial home in Lagos, 1925-1944  -- by Simon Heap; title: Children's masquerade: performance and creativity in Benin City  -- by Uyilawa Usuanlele; title: "500 children missing in Lagos": child kidnapping and public anxiety in colonial Nigeria,  -- by Saheed Aderinto and Paul Osifodunrin; title: "A world of good to our boys": Boy Scouts in southern Nigeria, 1934-1951  -- by Adam Paddock; title: The colonial office and the employment of children in the Nigerian tin mines in the 1950s  -- by Tokunbo Ayoola; title: Framing the colonial child: childhood memory and self representation in autobiographical writings  -- by Saheed Aderinto; title: Within salvation: child hawkers and the colonial state in development era Lagos -- by Abosede George.