Children and Childhood in Colonial Nigerian Histories

ISBN-13: 9781137501622 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 235 str.

Saheed Aderinto

Opis

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 moderni

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Researching Colonial Childhoods: Images and Representations of Children in Nigerian Newspaper Press, 1925-1950, by Saheed Aderinto Chapter 2: Processing Juvenile Delinquents at The Salvation Army's Boys' Industrial Home in Lagos, 1925–1944, by Simon Heap Chapter 3: Children's Masquerade: Performance and Creativity in Benin City, by Uyilawa Usuanlele Chapter 4: '500 Children Missing in Lagos': Child Kidnapping and Public Anxiety in Colonial Nigeria, by Saheed Aderinto and Paul Osifodunrin Chapter 5: 'A World of Good to our Boys': Boy Scouts in Southern Nigeria, 1934-1951, by Adam Paddock Chapter 6: The Colonial Office and the Employment of Children in the Nigerian Tin Mines in the 1950s, by Tokunbo Ayoola Chapter 7: Framing the Colonial Child: Childhood Memory and Self Representation in Autobiographical Writings, by Saheed Aderinto Chapter 8: Within Salvation: Child Hawkers and the Colonial State in Development Era Lagos, by Abosede George

O autorze

Saheed Aderinto is Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina University, USA.