Journal of West African History 7, No. 2

In This Issue Editor's Introduction Reckoning with the Development Episteme: Failed Plans, Built Environment, and Visions of Nigeria's Decolonization Ndubueze L. Mbah Articles Grave Reservations: Nigerian Literature and Histories of "European Reservations" during Decolonization Tim Livsey Making a Nation Modern: CIS and Nigeria's First...
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In This Issue



Editor's Introduction

Reckoning with the Development Episteme: Failed Plans, Built Environment, and Visions of Nigeria's Decolonization

Ndubueze L. Mbah



Articles

Grave Reservations: Nigerian Literature and Histories of "European Reservations" during Decolonization

Tim Livsey



Making a Nation Modern: CIS and Nigeria's First National Development Plan

Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina



Lagoon: Hidden Depths to Housing Schemes across Independence in Lagos, Nigeria

Mark Duerksen



The Roots of "Apes Obey!": Labor and Innovation in Nigerian Railway History

Oluwatoyin Oduntan



Brazilian-Style Architecture and Lagosian Modernity

Abosede George



Book Reviews

Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age, by Ndubueze L. Mbah

Reviewed by Jennifer Lofkrantz



Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria, by Ebenezer Obadare

Reviewed by Paul Grant



African Print Cultures: Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century, edited by Derek R. Peterson, Emma Hunter, and Stephanie Newell

Reviewed by Niklas Hultin



Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict, by Chima J. Korieh

Reviewed by Judith A. Byfield



Amílcar Cabral: A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary, by Peter Karibe Mendy

Reviewed by Abel Djassi Amado