Lagos
Subtitle: a cultural history
By: Kaye Whiteman
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781566569194
Subjects: Description and travel; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Chapter One: The story of Lagos: evolution of a multi-ethnic gene pool; title: Origins: Ogunfunminire, Olofin and the Idejo; title: The first Portuguese contact; title: The Benin imprint and "Eko"; title: Akinsemoyin and the coming of the Portuguese; title: The early nineteenth-century context; title: The ending of the slave trade and the Yoruba Wars; title: Behind the British intervention: the role of Palmerston; title: 1851-61: from the consulate to the Treat of Cession; title: Sierra Leoneans and the Brazilians: Saros and Amaros; title: The growing gene pool; title: City of religions; title: The 1850s to the 1890s: the British become colonial; title: The modern melting-pot; title: The status of Lagos: crown colony to state; title: The rise and fall of politics: the move to Abuja; title: Chapter Two: The topography of Lagos: island and mainland; title: The ambivalent role of the "Bar": barrier and entry point; title: Burton's Lagos; title: E. D. Morel's Lagos; title: Two worlds: the island and the mainland; title: Lagos Island: Isale Ego and the Iga Idunganran; title: The marina and the business district; title: Ikoyi: the McGregor Canal to Banana Island; title: Victoria Island: the "elite slum"; title: Lekki: unrestrained expansion?; title: The mainland: another mind concept; title: The ever-present but under-used lagoon; title: Bridges and motorways; title: The Julius Berger phenomenon; title: Chapter Three: Changing society and the "look" of the city; title: The imprint of change; title: Victorian Lagos; title: The rise of racism; title: The Brazilian imprint; title: Railway trains and motor cars; title: The Lagos steam tramway; title: The airports; title: The population explosion; title: Official buildings; title: Commercial buildings; title: Merchants and entrepreneurs: the Liverpool of West Africa?; title: The dream of a Manhattan of Africa; title: Roads, markets and malls; title: Chapter Four: A true city of imagination: Lagos in literature; title: The first Nigerian writing; title: The burgeoning of the newspapers; title: The fiction writers: the first generation; title: Ken Saro-Wiwa; title: Soyinka: the city as masquerade; title: Urban prototypes and the next generation of writers: Okri, Habila, Abani; title: Bar Beach and Maroko; title: Lagos of the poets; title: Civil war, oil boom, military rule; title: The "two cultures" syndrome; title: Lagos Pidgin; title: Outside perspectives; title: The journalist as a hero in Nigerian fiction and non-fiction; title: The guides: "dark tourism" or moving to normalcy?; title: Chapter Five: Music, film, art and the havens in the wilderness; title: Sakara, asiko, juju and highlife; title: The heyday of highlife; title: The growth of the venues; title: The night club as metaphor; title: The Kakadu; title: Chapmans and Guinness; title: The Nollywood phenomenon; title: Havens in the wilderness; title: The case of Nimbus; title: The slender plant of heritage; title: Chapter Six: Stories to remember: a selection of episodes in the city's history; title: The Lagos consulate 1851 to 1861; title: The British takeover in slow motion; title: 1851: gunboat diplomacy; title: 1861: the crunch; title: The baiting of Lord Lugard; title: The Prince of Wales' visit,1925; title: Drama at the Bristol Hotel, 1947; title: The booing of the northeners, 1953; title: Independence day (and night), October 1960; title: The 1963 treason trial; title: Season of coups, 1966; title: Episode from a city in wartime, 1967; title: The Biafran surrender as seen in Lagos, 1970; title: The All-African Games of 1973; title: Assassination on the Bank Road, 1976; title: The undoing of Sir Martin LeQuesne, 1976; title: Ominous 1983; title: The Dele Giwa killing, 1986; title: The Orkar coup, 1990; title: The January 2002 explosions at the Ikeja barracks; title: Voting in Lagos, 2007; title: Chapter Seven: The long shadow of FESTAC; title: Colonial symbols; title: Aftermath; title: Chapter Eight: Prominent personalities of Lagos; title: The twentieth century; title: Chapter Nine: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: archetypal Lagos boy; title: Legend and legacy; title: Chapter Ten: Streets of the imagination: everyday mysteries of the city; title: Changing names; title: Ikoyi; title: Awolowo Road; title: Broad Street and the marina; title: Igbosere Road/Bamgbose Street; title: Ahmadu Bello Way; title: Apapa, Ajegunle, the Badagry Road; title: Yaba, Ikeja, Surulere; title: Mile Two and Amuwo Odofin; title: Chapter Eleven: The future city?; title: "Delirious Lagos"; title: Images of a city; title: "One of the best kept secrets in Africa"; title: A theory of Lagos?; title: From Tinubu to Fashola; title: Mega-city or world city?; title: Appendix I; title: Treaty of Cession of August 1861; title: Further Reading - BGL and Lagos; title: Index of literary & historical names; title: Index of places & landmarks.