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Children and Childhood in Colonial Nigerian Histories

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Editors:
  1. Saheed Aderinto

    1. Western Carolina, Cullowhee, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Saheed Aderinto
    Pages 1-18

  3. Researching Colonial Childhoods: Images and Representations of Children in Nigerian Newspaper Press, 1925–1950

    • Saheed Aderinto
    Pages 19-47

  4. Processing Juvenile Delinquents at the Salvation Army’s Boys’ Industrial Home in Lagos, 1925–1944

    • Simon Heap
    Pages 49-76

  5. Children’s Masquerade: Performance and Creativity in Benin City

    • Uyilawa Usuanlele
    Pages 77-95

  6. “500 Children Missing in Lagos”: Child Kidnapping and Public Anxiety in Colonial Nigeria

    • Saheed Aderinto, Paul Osifodunrin
    Pages 97-121

  7. “A World of Good to Our Boys”: Boy Scouts in Southern Nigeria, 1934–1951

    • Adam Paddock
    Pages 123-146

  8. The Colonial Office and the Employment of Children in the Nigerian Tin Mines in the 1950s

    • Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola
    Pages 147-168

  9. Framing the Colonial Child: Childhood Memory and Self-Representation in Autobiographical Writings

    • Saheed Aderinto
    Pages 169-199

  10. Within Salvation: Girl Hawkers and the Colonial State in Development Era Lagos

    • Abosede George
    Pages 201-231

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 233-235
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About this book

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 modernity, power, agency, and social transformation under imperial rule.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Western Carolina, Cullowhee, USA

    Saheed Aderinto

About the editor

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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Children and Childhood in Colonial Nigerian Histories

  • Editors: Saheed Aderinto

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137492937

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50162-2Published: 28 April 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50559-3Published: 28 April 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49293-7Published: 05 May 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 235

  • Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, African History, Modern History, Social History

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