Contested Burial Grounds: African Religious Communities, Urban Displacement, and the Spatial Politics of Difference in Colonial Lagos, Nigeria.

This article uncovers how Black interfaith communities agitated to preserve public cemeteries on Lagos Island from the nineteenth century until the 1930s. As burial grounds became full during the 1920s, the British administration proposed closing Muslim and Christian cemeteries. The Black residents...

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Publicado en:Journal of Social History Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 493 - 526
Autor principal: Somotan, Titilola Halimat
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Spring2025
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