Monsuru Muritala

Livelihood in Colonial Lagos (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216249764
• Artikelnr.: 74398715

Autorenporträt

Monsuru Muritala is senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Ibadan.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One
An Overview of the Pre
Colonial Economy and Society of Lagos Chapter Two
Colonial Infrastructure and the Modern Economy, 1861
1960 Chapter Three
Waged Employment, the Extended Family and Urban Culture, 1900
1960 Chapter Four
Women and Urban Experience, 1900
1960 Chapter Five
Neighborhood Cultures and the Redefinition of Social Values, 1861
1960 Conclusion