Histories of Dirt : Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos - 9781478006435

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.

• | : Stephanie Newell
• | Publisher: Duke University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 20, 2019
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 1478006439
• | ISBN-13: 9781478006435