The problem of Nigeria is slavery, not white slave traffic

Globalization and the politicization of prostitution in Southern Nigeria, 1921-1955

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2140440
AutoresSaheed Aderinto (a Western Carolina University , Cullowhee , North Carolina , USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen46
Número1
Páginas1-22
Fecha de publicación2012-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCanadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0008-3968 • E-ISSN: 1923-3051
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00083968.2012.659576
OpenAlexW1608435329
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas56

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 to connect colonial history of prostitution with what is esoterically designated in post-colonial studies and popular literature as “human trafficking”. But more significantly, I demonstrate how and why the colonialists disguised domestic and transnational prostitution – also known in world politics as white slave traffic – as domestic slavery. This study observes that scholars have under-researched the interaction between global and local forces in the making of colonial Africa's politics of sex. In addition, how the politics of abolition of domestic slavery in colonial Africa dovetails with the regulation of prostitution has not received critical attention, despite the fact that the rhetoric of barbarism of human cargo featured prominently in the justification for the encroachment and colonization of the continent

Biology · Criminology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Gene · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Southeastern Nigeria · White (mutation · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Law