Researching Colonial Childhoods

Images and Representations of Children in Nigerian Newspaper Press, 1925–1950

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9364784
AutoresSaheed Aderinto (autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume39
Páginas241-266
Data de publicação2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHistory in Africa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0361-5413 • E-ISSN: 1558-2744
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/hia.2012.0001
OpenAlexW2053178826
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas34

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 agency, on the one hand, and the interaction between the forces of “tradition” and “modernity” on the other. Instead of approaching children's experience from the well-established stand-points of disease, violence, delinquency and crime, this paper examines the following areas: children and education; children and motherhood; and children as consumers. These uncharted areas of Nigerian children's history render alternative and useful perspectives on agency and the centrality of childhood to colonial state's ideas of progress, civilization, modernity, and social stability

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