Researching Colonial Childhoods

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

Bibliographic Data

ID23457000
AuthorsSaheed Aderinto (Western Carolina University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages19-47
Publication date2015-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueChildren and Childhood in Colonial Nigerian Histories (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137492937_2
OpenAlexW4250487584
ISBN9781137492937
LanguageEN
References cited26

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 political science. And many have been influenced by postcolonial concerns—the phenomenon of the child soldier, child labor, poverty, disease and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, crime, and delinquency. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Child abuse · Colonialism · Criminology · Field (mathematics) · History of childhood · Media studies · Newspaper · Phenomenon · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Social science · Sociology · Suicide prevention · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Medicine

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