Abosede George
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abosede George |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abosede |
| FAMILY NAME | George |
| SIGNATURE | GEORGE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barnard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Queens of Afrobeat
Brazilian-Style Architecture and Lagosian Modernity
This article focuses on Brazilian-style architecture in Lagos. It explores how the architectural style shifted from signifying Brazilian ethnic identity and difference in the nineteenth century to indexing the urban identity of Lagos in the twentieth century
AHR Conversation
Since 2006, the AHR has published ten "Conversations" on a wide range of topics.By now, we have a standard format: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation that is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing in the December issue.The goal has been to provide readers with a wide-ranging and accessible consideration of a topic at a high l…
Saving Nigerian Girls
This essay discusses girl-saving campaigns in Nigerian history, focusing on the two that have been most extensively documented: the girl hawker project of the early twentieth century, which climaxed with the 1943 passage of the first hawking ban in Nigeria, and the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, which started in 2014 and is still ongoing. Though separated by time and space, in order to inspire salvationist impulses in their respective audiences bot…
Pernille Ipsen. Daughters of the Trade
Pernille Ipsen’s Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast addresses the making of a mixed-race community in the Gold Coast during the period of the Atlantic slave trade, and the significance of this community for our understandings of the conduct of the slave trade and transformations in racial thought in the Atlantic world. The book focuses on the Ga stronghold of Osu and the adjoining Danish fort of Ch…
Within Salvation
Within Salvation
On October 6, 1946, the Lagos Daily Service newspaper published an unsigned letter from one of its readers who wrote in to complain about a controversial new Lagos Township ordinance, the Children and Young Person's Ordinance of 1943. Although the law had been passed three years prior, it had gone un-enforced pending the end of the Second World War. When it was finally put into effect, contemporaries observed that it featured two fundamental inno…
He-Yin Zhen, Oyewumi, and Geographies of Anti-Universalism
George’s essay addresses the difference that distinctions of history and geography make to the development of He-Yin Zhen’s, Oyeronke Oyewumi’s, and Kimberle Crenshaw’s theorizations of gender difference. Despite their various entrees into the question of gender difference and the different points that each settles upon, He-Yin’s, Oyewumi’s, and Crenshaw’s writings reflect a shared anti-universalism that forms a critique of Western majoritarian f…
In Idi Amin's Shadow
"In Idi Amin's Shadow: Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda, by Alicia C. Decker." Canadian Journal of History, 50(3), pp. 631–632
AHR Conversation
Since 2006, the AHR has published ten "Conversations" on a wide range of topics.By now, we have a standard format: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation that is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing in the December issue.The goal has been to provide readers with a wide-ranging and accessible consideration of a topic at a high l…
Within Salvation
Within Salvation
On October 6, 1946, the Lagos Daily Service newspaper published an unsigned letter from one of its readers who wrote in to complain about a controversial new Lagos Township ordinance, the Children and Young Person's Ordinance of 1943. Although the law had been passed three years prior, it had gone un-enforced pending the end of the Second World War. When it was finally put into effect, contemporaries observed that it featured two fundamental inno…
He-Yin Zhen, Oyewumi, and Geographies of Anti-Universalism
George’s essay addresses the difference that distinctions of history and geography make to the development of He-Yin Zhen’s, Oyeronke Oyewumi’s, and Kimberle Crenshaw’s theorizations of gender difference. Despite their various entrees into the question of gender difference and the different points that each settles upon, He-Yin’s, Oyewumi’s, and Crenshaw’s writings reflect a shared anti-universalism that forms a critique of Western majoritarian f…
In Idi Amin's Shadow
"In Idi Amin's Shadow: Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda, by Alicia C. Decker." Canadian Journal of History, 50(3), pp. 631–632
Pernille Ipsen. Daughters of the Trade
Pernille Ipsen’s Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast addresses the making of a mixed-race community in the Gold Coast during the period of the Atlantic slave trade, and the significance of this community for our understandings of the conduct of the slave trade and transformations in racial thought in the Atlantic world. The book focuses on the Ga stronghold of Osu and the adjoining Danish fort of Ch…
AHR Conversation
Since 2006, the AHR has published ten "Conversations" on a wide range of topics.By now, we have a standard format: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation that is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing in the December issue.The goal has been to provide readers with a wide-ranging and accessible consideration of a topic at a high l…
Saving Nigerian Girls
This essay discusses girl-saving campaigns in Nigerian history, focusing on the two that have been most extensively documented: the girl hawker project of the early twentieth century, which climaxed with the 1943 passage of the first hawking ban in Nigeria, and the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, which started in 2014 and is still ongoing. Though separated by time and space, in order to inspire salvationist impulses in their respective audiences bot…
Brazilian-Style Architecture and Lagosian Modernity
This article focuses on Brazilian-style architecture in Lagos. It explores how the architectural style shifted from signifying Brazilian ethnic identity and difference in the nineteenth century to indexing the urban identity of Lagos in the twentieth century
Queens of Afrobeat
Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Girl (2 works)