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Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development in Colonial Lagos (New African Histories)

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Winner of the 2015 Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize for outstanding book on African women’s experiences. (African Studies Association)
Honorable Mention, New York African Studies Association Book Prize

In Making Up to date Girls, Abosede A. George examines the influence of African social reformers and the developmentalist colonial state at the practice and ideology of girlhood in addition to its intersection with child labor in Lagos, Nigeria. It draws from gender studies, generational studies, labor history, and urban history to shed new light at the complex workings of African cities from the turn of the twentieth century during the nationalist era of the 1950s.

The two major schemes at the center of this study were the modernization project of elite Lagosian women and the salvationist project of British social workers. By approaching children and youth, specifically girl hawkers, as social actors and examining the ways by which local and colonial reformers worked upon young people, the book offers a crucial new standpoint at the uses of African children for the production and legitimization of national and international social development initiatives.

Making Up to date Girls demonstrates how oral sources can be utilized to uncover the social history of informal or undocumented urban workers and to track transformations in practices of childhood over the course of decades. George revises conventional accounts of the history of development work in Africa by drawing close attention to the social welfare initiatives of late colonialism and by highlighting the roles that African women reformers played in promoting sociocultural changes within their very own societies.

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