Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos

Focusing on colonial and postcolonial Lagos, Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces come to be regarded as dirty by showing how colonial perceptions of dirt and cleanliness structured colonial governance, urban planning, public health policies, and relationships between colonists and native Lagosians.

• | Author: Stephanie Newell
• | Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• | Publication Date: December 20, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1478006439
• | ISBN-13: 9781478006435