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Establishment Of The Nigerian Railway Corporation, Tokunbo A. Ayoola
Establishment Of The Nigerian Railway Corporation, Tokunbo A. Ayoola
Journal of Retracing Africa
Making use of previously unused Colonial Office records at the National Archives in Kew, including newspaper reports, interviews with staff of the Nigerian Railway, and debates in the Federal House of Representatives, this study examines the forces that dictated the establishment of the Nigerian Railway Corporation. It argues that the primary reason why the British colonial government established the corporation was to assist foreign interests in Nigeria by distancing itself from the direct management of labor relations between the Nigerian colonial state and the militant trade unions in the Nigerian Railway and other commercially oriented government departments. By placing the …
“God Was With Us:” Child Labor In Colonial Kenya, 1922 - 1950s, Samson K. Ndanyi
“God Was With Us:” Child Labor In Colonial Kenya, 1922 - 1950s, Samson K. Ndanyi
Journal of Retracing Africa
Contentious debates about the allowable minimum age of child laborers informed the discourse of child labor in colonial Kenya between 1922 and the 1950s. Beginning with the Harry Thuku Uprising of 1922 that instigated the discussion over labor policy concerning juvenile wage laborers and heightened the tension between the British colonial administration and African adult workers, the British government in Kenya struggled to forge coherent labor policies concerning the ages of African child workers. Frequent changes in labor laws made it easier for labor recruiters and employers to manipulate the system by recruiting younger children for work thus drawing them …
Spiers, Edward. The Victorian Soldier In Africa: Studies In Imperialism. Manchester And New York: Manchester University Press, 2013. 212pp. [Book Review], Samson K. Ndanyi
Spiers, Edward. The Victorian Soldier In Africa: Studies In Imperialism. Manchester And New York: Manchester University Press, 2013. 212pp. [Book Review], Samson K. Ndanyi
Journal of Retracing Africa
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