Saheed Aderinto
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 86196 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Saheed Aderinto |
| PRENOMES | Saheed |
| SOBRENOME | Aderinto |
| ASSINATURA | ADERINTO S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Western Carolina University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa
“The Ghost of Macaulay”
Research Article| March 01 2021 “The Ghost of Macaulay”: Nigeria’s Anticolonialism and Struggle for Independence Ndubueze L. Mbah; Ndubueze L. Mbah State University of New York at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Saheed Aderinto Saheed Aderinto Western Carolina University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of West African History (2021) 7 (1): v–vi. https://doi.org/10.14321/jwestaf…
Rethinking Stale Ideas about the Birth of Higher Education in Nigeria
Historians generally know that the first generation of universities came into existence in Africa from the 1940s when dramatic international and local developments after WWII changed some of the ce
Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation
This chapter explores how English cricket ideologies interface with local cricket in the postcolonial nation of Cameroon. It describes the concept of “imagined communities” to demonstrate how the sport has been developed largely by anglophone Cameroonians as a way to reimagine their English heritage and sense of community. The chapter explores cricket has emerged in Cameroon and English ideologies remain dominant. It deals with a literature detai…
Empire Day in Africa
Anyone born or raised in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, after 1960 would remember Children’s Day, observed every 27 May. However, few knew that it started as Empire Day in the first decade of the twentieth century—fewer are aware that it was a significant symbol of imperial domination, decolonised from the late 1950s to align with postcolonial ideals of self-determination and nation-building. African historical research has examined the…
African Kingdoms
This history-rich volume details the sociopolitical, economic, and artistic aspects of African kingdoms from the earliest times to the second half of the 19th century. Africa has a long and fascinating history and is a place of growing importance in the world history curriculum. This detailed encyclopedia covers the history of African kingdoms from antiquity through the mid-19th century, tracing the dynasties' ties to modern globalization and inf…
Abosede A. George. Making Modern Girls
During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of educated elite women in Lagos, colonial Nigeria’s capital, embarked on a project to modernize working-class girlhood by advocating for education as the best pathway for socialization and upward socioeconomic mobility. They also considered certain employment and work-place habits undesirable for girls in the city, where the contradictions of colonialism manifested in the co-habitation of “…
 500 Children Missing in Lagosâ
Researching Colonial Childhoods
Despite frequent reference to children in Africanist literature, works that critically place childhood at the center of historical inquiry are few. Indeed, children’s history has yet to take a firm root as a sub-field of African history even with the recent appearance of literature dealing with the colonial era. 1 Most of works on this aspect of African experience have come from the social sciences: anthropology, psychology, sociology, and politi…
Researching Colonial Childhoods
Framing the Colonial Child
Framing the Colonial Child
This chapter examines the memory of childhood in the autobiographies of 30 Nigerians born between 1900 and 1950.1 The identities of the autobiographers cut across multiple ethnic as well as gender lines, and are drawn from both the southern and northern parts of the country. My primary concern is how colonial children as autobiographers remember their childhood, with emphasis on their encounter with colonial modernity and how location and sociocu…
“Youth of Awo-Omama Will Boycott Their Girls”
The title of this chapter is the headline of a news report in the January 8, 1948, issue of the Nigerian Spokesman, one of the newspapers published by Nnamdi Azikiwe, a foremost nationalist and one of the founding fathers of independent Nigeria.1 The newspaper reported about a resolution an assemblage of young unmarried men had passed in December 1947 about bride price in Awo-Omama, a community in southeastern Nigeria. According to these men, bri…
“500 Children Missing in Lagos”
The title of this chapter is a front-page headline of the July 31, 1956, issue of the West African Pilot, the best-selling newspaper in 1950s Nigeria.1 The newspaper reported the arrest of one Lamidi Alabi, accused of kidnapping three children (Ganiyu Adisa, Musibawu Adio, and Asani Afoke, all boys, between the ages of three and four) on July 30 and the tumultuous atmosphere at the Lagos Central Police Station, where he was then held. It was trul…
Children and Childhood in Colonial Nigerian Histories
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 chi
O! Sir I do not know either to kill myself or to stay”
This article concerns the expression of fearful emotions in the correspondence of Nigerian children written to the British colonial government requesting assistance during the 1940s. Unlike most existing works that use materials composed by adults to research children’s history, this paper employs sources composed by children themselves. It views the children’s letters as an integral aspect of colonial African literary culture, an important contr…
Modernizing Love
This article concerns literary culture and the representation of romantic love in colonial Nigeria's print media. It examines how Nigerians, during the first half of the twentieth century, began redefining love, as both a biocultural and a historical construction, through what I call the modernization of African romantic passion. Through letters to editors and articles, print media showed that love, like education, politics and other institutions…
When Sex Threatened the State
Breaking new ground in the understanding of sexuality's complex relationship to colonialism, this book illuminates the attempts at regulating prostitution in colonial Nigeria. As the book shows, British colonizers saw prostitution as an African form of sexual primitivity and a problem to be solved as part of imperialism's “civilizing mission.” The book details the Nigerian response to imported sexuality laws and the contradictory ways both Africa…
When Sex Threatened the State
Breaking new ground in the understanding of sexuality's complex relationship to colonialism, When Sex Threatened the State illuminates the attempts at regulating prostitution in colonial Nigeria. As Saheed Aderinto shows, British colonizers saw prostitution as an African form of sexual primitivity and a problem to be solved as part of imperialism's civilizing mission. He details the Nigerian response to imported sexuality laws and the contradicto…
Journey to Work
I was brought here from Nigeria by the accused [Bassey Assor] about three years ago. . . . I was brought to Sekondi and after a few weeks taken to Prestea. At Prestea a whiteman came and made some arrangement with [the] accused and I was then told to go into a room with the whiteman. I objected but was forced into the room by the accused and the man had connexion [sic] with me which resulted in my vagina bleeding profusely. I was in pain and ill …
Where Is the Boundary? Cocoa Conflict, Land Tenure, and Politics in Western Nigeria, 1890s-1960
Journal Article Where Is the Boundary? Cocoa Conflict, Land Tenure, and Politics in Western Nigeria, 1890s–1960 Get access Saheed Aderinto Saheed Aderinto Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 47, Issue 1, Fall 2013, Pages 176–195, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/sht054 Published: 01 September 2013
Researching Colonial Childhoods
This article takes an introductory excursion into newspaper sources for researching Nigerian children's history during the colonial period by analyzing and describing items including news, editorials, stories, photos, advertisements, columns, debates, features, and letters among others. It situates these newspaper sources within the context of the circumstances under which they were produced and the prevailing politics of identity, gender, and ag…
Of Gender, Race, and Class
Of Gender, Race, and ClassThe Politics of Prostitution in Lagos, Nigeria, 1923–1954 Saheed Aderinto (bio) I cannot subscribe to the view that in Nigeria women police between the ages of 40 and 50 will be better able than the existing policemen to prevent prostitution. . . . I cannot visualise them dealing with the screaming and swearing prostitutes, drunken merchants, seamen of all nationalities, pimps, boma boys, touts and the rest of the unsavo…
Dangerous Aphrodisiac, Restless Sexuality
This article introduces two new approaches, namely "protectionism" and "censorship," into the present scholarship on venereal disease (VD) and sexuality. It uncovers how the British colonial government in Nigeria, in order to enhance the fortunes of Western biomedical therapeutic options, censored advertisements for African and non-British remedies for VD and aphrodisiacs. Although historians of Africa have traced the root of some of the continen…
The problem of Nigeria is slavery, not white slave traffic
This article challenges a well-established assumption in the social sciences and among non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that prostitution is a “new” post-colonial challenge of Africa's development that “suddenly” emerged in the aftermath of the economic and social impacts of the Structural Adjustment Programs of the mid-1980s. By uncovering the first major domestic and transnational prostitution in Nigeria between the 1920s and 1950s, I seek…
Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History
The book traces the history of writing about Nigeria since the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the rise of nationalist historiography and the leading themes. The second half of the twentieth century saw the publication of massive amounts of literature on Nigeria by Nigerian and non-Nigerian historians. This volume reflects on that literature, focusing on those works by Nigerians in thecontext of the rise and decline of African nationalist…
Children and Childhood in Colonial Nigerian Histories
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 chi
Of Gender, Race, and Class
Of Gender, Race, and ClassThe Politics of Prostitution in Lagos, Nigeria, 1923–1954 Saheed Aderinto (bio) I cannot subscribe to the view that in Nigeria women police between the ages of 40 and 50 will be better able than the existing policemen to prevent prostitution. . . . I cannot visualise them dealing with the screaming and swearing prostitutes, drunken merchants, seamen of all nationalities, pimps, boma boys, touts and the rest of the unsavo…
O! Sir I do not know either to kill myself or to stay”
This article concerns the expression of fearful emotions in the correspondence of Nigerian children written to the British colonial government requesting assistance during the 1940s. Unlike most existing works that use materials composed by adults to research children’s history, this paper employs sources composed by children themselves. It views the children’s letters as an integral aspect of colonial African literary culture, an important contr…
Empire Day in Africa
Anyone born or raised in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, after 1960 would remember Children’s Day, observed every 27 May. However, few knew that it started as Empire Day in the first decade of the twentieth century—fewer are aware that it was a significant symbol of imperial domination, decolonised from the late 1950s to align with postcolonial ideals of self-determination and nation-building. African historical research has examined the…
Researching Colonial Childhoods
This article takes an introductory excursion into newspaper sources for researching Nigerian children's history during the colonial period by analyzing and describing items including news, editorials, stories, photos, advertisements, columns, debates, features, and letters among others. It situates these newspaper sources within the context of the circumstances under which they were produced and the prevailing politics of identity, gender, and ag…
Dangerous Aphrodisiac, Restless Sexuality
This article introduces two new approaches, namely "protectionism" and "censorship," into the present scholarship on venereal disease (VD) and sexuality. It uncovers how the British colonial government in Nigeria, in order to enhance the fortunes of Western biomedical therapeutic options, censored advertisements for African and non-British remedies for VD and aphrodisiacs. Although historians of Africa have traced the root of some of the continen…
Journey to Work
I was brought here from Nigeria by the accused [Bassey Assor] about three years ago. . . . I was brought to Sekondi and after a few weeks taken to Prestea. At Prestea a whiteman came and made some arrangement with [the] accused and I was then told to go into a room with the whiteman. I objected but was forced into the room by the accused and the man had connexion [sic] with me which resulted in my vagina bleeding profusely. I was in pain and ill …
The problem of Nigeria is slavery, not white slave traffic
This article challenges a well-established assumption in the social sciences and among non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that prostitution is a “new” post-colonial challenge of Africa's development that “suddenly” emerged in the aftermath of the economic and social impacts of the Structural Adjustment Programs of the mid-1980s. By uncovering the first major domestic and transnational prostitution in Nigeria between the 1920s and 1950s, I seek…
African Cultural Values
Modernizing Love
This article concerns literary culture and the representation of romantic love in colonial Nigeria's print media. It examines how Nigerians, during the first half of the twentieth century, began redefining love, as both a biocultural and a historical construction, through what I call the modernization of African romantic passion. Through letters to editors and articles, print media showed that love, like education, politics and other institutions…
Where Is the Boundary? Cocoa Conflict, Land Tenure, and Politics in Western Nigeria, 1890s-1960
Journal Article Where Is the Boundary? Cocoa Conflict, Land Tenure, and Politics in Western Nigeria, 1890s–1960 Get access Saheed Aderinto Saheed Aderinto Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 47, Issue 1, Fall 2013, Pages 176–195, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/sht054 Published: 01 September 2013
Britain, Leftist Nationalists, and the Transfer of Power in Nigeria, 1945-1965
Note portant sur l’auteur Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani, Britain, Leftist Nationalists, and the Transfer of Power in Nigeria, 1945-1965, New York and London: Routledge, 2005, XV + 167 pp. Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani’s Britain, Leftist Nationalists, and the Transfer of Power in Nigeria, 1945-1965 is a pioneering study of the development, activities and failure of Marxism and other left-wing organizations in Nigeria during the decolonization period up to 1965.…
African Cultural Values
The Military and the Nigerian State, 1966-1993
Adegboyega Isaac Ajayi's book discusses the strategies used by the military in Nigeria to hold on to power between 1966 (when a group of military officers seized power from the politicians) and 1993 (when General Ibrahim Babangida was ousted and the most peaceful election conducted in the history of the country was cancelled). This book marks a departure from the works of well-known students of civil–military relations such as Bayo Adekanye. Inst…
Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History
The book traces the history of writing about Nigeria since the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the rise of nationalist historiography and the leading themes. The second half of the twentieth century saw the publication of massive amounts of literature on Nigeria by Nigerian and non-Nigerian historians. This volume reflects on that literature, focusing on those works by Nigerians in thecontext of the rise and decline of African nationalist…
Researching Colonial Childhoods
This article takes an introductory excursion into newspaper sources for researching Nigerian children's history during the colonial period by analyzing and describing items including news, editorials, stories, photos, advertisements, columns, debates, features, and letters among others. It situates these newspaper sources within the context of the circumstances under which they were produced and the prevailing politics of identity, gender, and ag…
Of Gender, Race, and Class
Of Gender, Race, and ClassThe Politics of Prostitution in Lagos, Nigeria, 1923–1954 Saheed Aderinto (bio) I cannot subscribe to the view that in Nigeria women police between the ages of 40 and 50 will be better able than the existing policemen to prevent prostitution. . . . I cannot visualise them dealing with the screaming and swearing prostitutes, drunken merchants, seamen of all nationalities, pimps, boma boys, touts and the rest of the unsavo…
Dangerous Aphrodisiac, Restless Sexuality
This article introduces two new approaches, namely "protectionism" and "censorship," into the present scholarship on venereal disease (VD) and sexuality. It uncovers how the British colonial government in Nigeria, in order to enhance the fortunes of Western biomedical therapeutic options, censored advertisements for African and non-British remedies for VD and aphrodisiacs. Although historians of Africa have traced the root of some of the continen…
The problem of Nigeria is slavery, not white slave traffic
This article challenges a well-established assumption in the social sciences and among non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that prostitution is a “new” post-colonial challenge of Africa's development that “suddenly” emerged in the aftermath of the economic and social impacts of the Structural Adjustment Programs of the mid-1980s. By uncovering the first major domestic and transnational prostitution in Nigeria between the 1920s and 1950s, I seek…
Where Is the Boundary? Cocoa Conflict, Land Tenure, and Politics in Western Nigeria, 1890s-1960
Journal Article Where Is the Boundary? Cocoa Conflict, Land Tenure, and Politics in Western Nigeria, 1890s–1960 Get access Saheed Aderinto Saheed Aderinto Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 47, Issue 1, Fall 2013, Pages 176–195, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/sht054 Published: 01 September 2013
When Sex Threatened the State
Breaking new ground in the understanding of sexuality's complex relationship to colonialism, this book illuminates the attempts at regulating prostitution in colonial Nigeria. As the book shows, British colonizers saw prostitution as an African form of sexual primitivity and a problem to be solved as part of imperialism's “civilizing mission.” The book details the Nigerian response to imported sexuality laws and the contradictory ways both Africa…
When Sex Threatened the State
Breaking new ground in the understanding of sexuality's complex relationship to colonialism, When Sex Threatened the State illuminates the attempts at regulating prostitution in colonial Nigeria. As Saheed Aderinto shows, British colonizers saw prostitution as an African form of sexual primitivity and a problem to be solved as part of imperialism's civilizing mission. He details the Nigerian response to imported sexuality laws and the contradicto…
Journey to Work
I was brought here from Nigeria by the accused [Bassey Assor] about three years ago. . . . I was brought to Sekondi and after a few weeks taken to Prestea. At Prestea a whiteman came and made some arrangement with [the] accused and I was then told to go into a room with the whiteman. I objected but was forced into the room by the accused and the man had connexion [sic] with me which resulted in my vagina bleeding profusely. I was in pain and ill …
 500 Children Missing in Lagosâ
Researching Colonial Childhoods
Despite frequent reference to children in Africanist literature, works that critically place childhood at the center of historical inquiry are few. Indeed, children’s history has yet to take a firm root as a sub-field of African history even with the recent appearance of literature dealing with the colonial era. 1 Most of works on this aspect of African experience have come from the social sciences: anthropology, psychology, sociology, and politi…
Researching Colonial Childhoods
Framing the Colonial Child
Framing the Colonial Child
This chapter examines the memory of childhood in the autobiographies of 30 Nigerians born between 1900 and 1950.1 The identities of the autobiographers cut across multiple ethnic as well as gender lines, and are drawn from both the southern and northern parts of the country. My primary concern is how colonial children as autobiographers remember their childhood, with emphasis on their encounter with colonial modernity and how location and sociocu…
“Youth of Awo-Omama Will Boycott Their Girls”
The title of this chapter is the headline of a news report in the January 8, 1948, issue of the Nigerian Spokesman, one of the newspapers published by Nnamdi Azikiwe, a foremost nationalist and one of the founding fathers of independent Nigeria.1 The newspaper reported about a resolution an assemblage of young unmarried men had passed in December 1947 about bride price in Awo-Omama, a community in southeastern Nigeria. According to these men, bri…
“500 Children Missing in Lagos”
The title of this chapter is a front-page headline of the July 31, 1956, issue of the West African Pilot, the best-selling newspaper in 1950s Nigeria.1 The newspaper reported the arrest of one Lamidi Alabi, accused of kidnapping three children (Ganiyu Adisa, Musibawu Adio, and Asani Afoke, all boys, between the ages of three and four) on July 30 and the tumultuous atmosphere at the Lagos Central Police Station, where he was then held. It was trul…
Children and Childhood in Colonial Nigerian Histories
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 chi
O! Sir I do not know either to kill myself or to stay”
This article concerns the expression of fearful emotions in the correspondence of Nigerian children written to the British colonial government requesting assistance during the 1940s. Unlike most existing works that use materials composed by adults to research children’s history, this paper employs sources composed by children themselves. It views the children’s letters as an integral aspect of colonial African literary culture, an important contr…
Modernizing Love
This article concerns literary culture and the representation of romantic love in colonial Nigeria's print media. It examines how Nigerians, during the first half of the twentieth century, began redefining love, as both a biocultural and a historical construction, through what I call the modernization of African romantic passion. Through letters to editors and articles, print media showed that love, like education, politics and other institutions…
Abosede A. George. Making Modern Girls
During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of educated elite women in Lagos, colonial Nigeria’s capital, embarked on a project to modernize working-class girlhood by advocating for education as the best pathway for socialization and upward socioeconomic mobility. They also considered certain employment and work-place habits undesirable for girls in the city, where the contradictions of colonialism manifested in the co-habitation of “…
African Kingdoms
This history-rich volume details the sociopolitical, economic, and artistic aspects of African kingdoms from the earliest times to the second half of the 19th century. Africa has a long and fascinating history and is a place of growing importance in the world history curriculum. This detailed encyclopedia covers the history of African kingdoms from antiquity through the mid-19th century, tracing the dynasties' ties to modern globalization and inf…
Empire Day in Africa
Anyone born or raised in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, after 1960 would remember Children’s Day, observed every 27 May. However, few knew that it started as Empire Day in the first decade of the twentieth century—fewer are aware that it was a significant symbol of imperial domination, decolonised from the late 1950s to align with postcolonial ideals of self-determination and nation-building. African historical research has examined the…
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