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CATEGORIES:Centre of African Studies Occasional Talks
SUMMARY:'Ise Olokun Esin: Self-apprehension and the bellig
 erent poor in colonial Lagos'  - Tunde Decker\, Un
 iversity of Oxford/Osun State University\, Nigeria
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/120151
DESCRIPTION:The act processes of the poor permeate literature 
 in the social\, anthropological and now the histor
 ical sciences. Varieties of interrogations direct 
 attention towards the implications of their liveli
 hood on political economy\, in all its segments. F
 rom this\, a challenge stares us in the face – the
  emerging necessity for interrogations on their th
 ought processes. This is the rationale behind this
  study which attempts to examine individual appreh
 ension of the self viz-a-viz socio-economic realit
 y and how such self-investigation translates into 
 collective consciousness. Using a self-apprehensio
 n narrative in the Lagos Weekly Record of 1921\, i
 t says\, that several factors combine to generate 
 in the individual an acquiescent attitude due to t
 he need to understand the transition process of co
 lonial society. It combines this narrative with ot
 her written documents by individuals including chi
 ldren and the positions of other secondary sources
  to advance the argument that the process of self-
 apprehension and consciousness generated belligere
 nt attitudes against the colonial dispensation. Gr
 adually\, the individual poor joined groups that i
 ncreased his or her efficacy in terms of advocacy 
 within the system. In this way\, he was able to in
 fluence\, up to a level\, policy decisions that af
 fected his membership of a collective. The study s
 elects the domestic servants association as a case
  study because it was the most “unorganised” withi
 n a gradually growing complex system of belligeren
 t responses to colonial administration. It argues 
 that within this “disorganisation”\, the group was
  able to garner some efficacy and advocate for the
  rights of its members. It concludes by saying tha
 t the domestic servants union was a significant in
 dication of the brewing cognition that more ‘sophi
 sticated’ advocacy groups like the Railway Workers
  Union and others acted upon\, hence laying a foun
 dation of belligerency for the post-colonial dispe
 nsation.  
LOCATION:Seminar Room S2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West
  Road\, Cambridge CB3 9DT
CONTACT:Victoria Jones
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