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Anthropology
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British colonialism
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colonial infrastructure
colonialism
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crime and criminality
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economics
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Gender Studies
Lagos
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livelihood
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Nigeria
Nigerian history
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post-colonialism
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sociology
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urban culture
urban experience
Urban Planning
urban poverty
wage employment
Product details
- ISBN 9781498582148
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 159 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 16 Oct 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Livelihood in Colonial Lagos initiates a new line of historical investigation into colonial urban culture, focused on the intersections between daily living and the urban experience. It examines the livelihood challenges that Africans faced between 1861 and 1960 due to the urban planning and development policies of the British government in colonial Lagos. It historicizes the urban livelihood strategies in the informal sector, and it explores how the flow of social capital mitigated the challenges faced by both migrants to and indigenes of Lagos in that time period. Monsuru Muritala illuminates the economic and social history of Lagos with special emphasis on the coping mechanisms adopted by the people under colonial rule.
Monsuru Muritala is senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Ibadan.
