Children and childhood in colonial Nigerian histories

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

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...

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Other Authors: Aderinto, Saheed (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Children > Nigeria > History > 20th century.
Children > Nigeria > Social conditions > 20th century.
Children
Children > Social conditions
Nigeria
History
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary: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. Contributors detail everyday interaction of children with the socio-political and economic infrastructure of colonialism and demonstrate that they played a significant but rarely acknowledged role in molding core ideas about colonial modernity and civilization. Children and Childhood in Colonial Nigerian Histories fills a major gap in African studies by presenting the historical roots of some of the main issues about children' experience in postcolonial Nigeria. It argues that colonial history of children is important for understanding the challenges of childhood in contemporary Nigeria.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781137492937
1137492937
9781349505593
1349505595
9781137501622
1137501626
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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