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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Published in:	Journal of Social History Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 493 - 526
Main Author:	Somotan, Titilola Halimat
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Spring2025
Subjects:	Lagos (Nigeria) Cemeteries Black people Religious communities Interment Funerals Urban planning & politics
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost