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SUMMARY:'Ise Olokun Esin: Self-apprehension and the belligerent poor in co
 lonial Lagos'  - Tunde Decker\, University of Oxford/Osun State University
 \, Nigeria
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CONTACT:Victoria Jones
DESCRIPTION:The act processes of the poor permeate literature in the socia
 l\, anthropological and now the historical sciences. Varieties of interrog
 ations direct attention towards the implications of their livelihood on po
 litical economy\, in all its segments. From this\, a challenge stares us i
 n the face – the emerging necessity for interrogations on their thought 
 processes. This is the rationale behind this study which attempts to exami
 ne individual apprehension of the self viz-a-viz socio-economic reality an
 d how such self-investigation translates into collective consciousness. Us
 ing a self-apprehension narrative in the Lagos Weekly Record of 1921\, it 
 says\, that several factors combine to generate in the individual an acqui
 escent attitude due to the need to understand the transition process of co
 lonial society. It combines this narrative with other written documents by
  individuals including children and the positions of other secondary sourc
 es to advance the argument that the process of self-apprehension and consc
 iousness generated belligerent attitudes against the colonial dispensation
 . Gradually\, the individual poor joined groups that increased his or her 
 efficacy in terms of advocacy within the system. In this way\, he was able
  to influence\, up to a level\, policy decisions that affected his members
 hip of a collective. The study selects the domestic servants association a
 s a case study because it was the most “unorganised” within a graduall
 y growing complex system of belligerent responses to colonial administrati
 on. It argues that within this “disorganisation”\, the group was able 
 to garner some efficacy and advocate for the rights of its members. It con
 cludes by saying that the domestic servants union was a significant indica
 tion of the brewing cognition that more ‘sophisticated’ advocacy group
 s like the Railway Workers Union and others acted upon\, hence laying a fo
 undation of belligerency for the post-colonial dispensation.  
LOCATION:Seminar Room S2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambrid
 ge CB3 9DT
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