A History Of The People Of Lagos 1852 1886
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History of the Peoples of Lagos State
Author | : Ade Adefuye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Lagos State (Nigeria) |
ISBN | : |
Kingdoms of the Yoruba
Author | : Robert Sydney Smith |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299116040 |
This third edition of what has been described as "this minor classic" has been extensively revised to take account of advances in Nigerian historiography. The twenty million Yorubas are one of the largest and most important groups of people on the African continent. Historically they were organized in a series of autonomous kingdoms and their past is richly recorded in oral tradition and archaeology. From the fifteenth century onwards there are descriptions by visitors and from the nineteenth century there are abundant official reports from administrators and missionaries. Yoruba sculpture in stone, metal, ivory, and wood is famous. Less well-known are the elaborate and carefully designed constitutional forms which were evolved in the separate kingdoms, the methods of warfare and diplomacy, the oral literature, and the religion based on the worship of a "high god" surrounded by a pantheon of more accessible deities. Many of these aspects are shown in the drawings and photographs which have been used-for the first time-to illustrate this distinguished work.
Livelihood in Colonial Lagos
Author | : Monsuru Muritala |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2019-10-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 149858215X |
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.
Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel
Author | : Isaac Babalọla Thomas |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2012-05-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004229159 |
This volume presents an edition and translation of I.B. Thomas's pioneering work, "The Life-Story of Me, Segilola", first published as a series of realistic letters to a local Lagos newspaper in 1929-30, but now acclaimed as the first Yoruba novel.
Unpublished Research on Africa, Completed and in Progress
Author | : United States Department of State. External Research Division |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Beginning in 1954, Apr. issue lists studies in progress, Oct. issue, completed studies.
External Research
Author | : United States. Department of State. External Research Division |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Ouidah
Author | : Robin Law |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2005-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0821445529 |
Ouidah, an African town in the Republic of Benin, was the principal precolonial commercial center of its region and the second-most-important town of the Dahomey kingdom. It served as a major outlet for the transatlantic slave trade. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, Ouidah was the most important embarkation point for slaves in the region of West Africa known to outsiders as the Slave Coast. This is the first detailed study of the town’s history and of its role in the Atlantic slave trade. Ouidah is a well-documented case study of precolonial urbanism, of the evolution of a merchant community, and in particular of the growth of a group of private traders whose relations with the Dahomian monarchy grew increasingly problematic over time.