Histories of dirt in West Africa: media and urban life in colonial and postcolonial Lagos

Histories of dirt -- European insanitary nuisances -- Malaria: lines in the dirt -- African newspapers, the 'great unofficial public', and plague in Colonial Lagos -- Screening dirt: public health movies in Colonial Nigeria and rural spectatorship in the 1930s and 1940s -- Methods, unsound...

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Main Author: Newell, Stephanie 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press 2020
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Summary:Histories of dirt -- European insanitary nuisances -- Malaria: lines in the dirt -- African newspapers, the 'great unofficial public', and plague in Colonial Lagos -- Screening dirt: public health movies in Colonial Nigeria and rural spectatorship in the 1930s and 1940s -- Methods, unsound methods, no methods at all? -- Popular perceptions of 'dirty' in multicultural Lagos -- Remembering waste -- City sexualities: negotiating homophobia -- Mediated publics, uncontrollable audiences
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 249 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9781478007067
1478007060

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