Children and childhood in colonial Nigerian histories / edited by Saheed Aderinto.

Other author Aderinto, Saheed.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Descriptionxviii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Children--Nigeria. --History. --20th century.
Children--Nigeria. --Social conditions. --20th century.

Contents Introduction: colonialism and the invention of modern Nigerian childhood / by Saheed Aderinto -- Researching colonial childhoods: images and representations of children in Nigerian newspaper press, 1925-1950 / by Saheed Aderinto -- Processing juvenile delinquents at the Salvation Army's boys' industrial home in Lagos, 1925-1944 / by Simon Heap -- Children's masquerade: performance and creativity in Benin City / by Uyilawa Usuanlele -- "500 children missing in Lagos": child kidnapping and public anxiety in colonial Nigeria, / by Saheed Aderinto and Paul Osifodunrin -- "A world of good to our boys": Boy Scouts in southern Nigeria, 1934-1951 / by Adam Paddock -- The colonial office and the employment of children in the Nigerian tin mines in the 1950s / by Tokunbo Ayoola -- Framing the colonial child: childhood memory and self representation in autobiographical writings / by Saheed Aderinto -- Within salvation: child hawkers and the colonial state in development era Lagos / by Abosede George.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014043392
ISBN9781137501622 (hardback : alk. paper)

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