Exit of a Hero : Photography and the Visual Culture of Commemoration in Southern Nigeria
In Exit of a Hero, Okechukwu Nwafor explores the cultural, political, and socioeconomic implications of photography in commemorative practices in southern Nigeria from the nineteenth century to the present. Focusing on obituary and commemorative photographs of late nineteenth and early twentieth-cen...
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University of Michigan Press
2026
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