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With this multispecies study of animals as instrumentalities of the colonial state in Nigeria, Saheed Aderinto argues that animals, like humans, were colonial subjects in Africa.
Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa broadens the historiography of animal studies by putting a diverse array of species (dogs, horses, livestock, and wildlife) into a single analytical framework for understanding colonialism in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.
From his study of animals with unequal political, economic, social, and intellectual capabilities, Aderinto establishes that the core dichotomies of human colonial subjecthood—indispensable yet disposable, good and bad, violent but peaceful, saintly and lawless—were also embedded in the identities of Nigeria's animal inhabitants. If class, religion, ethnicity, location, and attitude toward imperialism determined the pattern of relations between human Nigerians and the colonial government, then species, habitat, material value, threat, and biological and psychological characteristics (among other traits) shaped imperial perspectives on animal Nigerians.
Conceptually sophisticated and intellectually engaging, Aderinto's thesis challenges readers to rethink what constitutes history and to recognize that human agency and narrative are not the only makers of the past.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART 1: LOYAL COMPANIONS, TASTY FOOD, DISTINGUISHED ATHLETES, POLITICAL BEINGS
1. A Meaty Colony: Nigerians and the Animals They Ate
2. The Living Machines of Imperialism: Animal Aesthetics, Imperial Spectacle, and the Political Economy of the Horse and Donkey
3. "Dogs Are the Most Useful Animals": A Canine History of Colonial Nigeria
4. The Nigerian Political Zoo: Animal Art, Modernism, and the Visual Narrative of Nation Building
PART 2: PATHOLOGY, EMPATHY, ANXIETY
5. "Beware of Dogs": Rabies and the Elastic Geographies of Fear
6. The Lion King in the Cage: Nature, Wildlife Conservation, and the Modern Zoo
7. "Let Us Be Kind to Our Dumb Friends": Animal Cruelty in the Discourse of Colonial Modernity'
8. "A Great Evil Ritual Murder": The Save-the-Nigerian-Horse-and-Donkey Campaign
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
