TY - JOUR AB - This paper examines the structural context of urbanity in the daily lives of boys in colonial Lagos. Particularly, it aims to underscore the ways in which their testaments, as conveyed in their petitions, point to the structural composition of livelihood and how they presented urbanity, poverty, fatherhood, employment, benefaction, education, servanthood, the state and the ‘interiority complex’ that reflected their personhood in the period – a phenomenon that remains inadequately interrogated in existing works. What is also significant here is the attention paid to the words of the boys as they constructed the generic conditions that their specific expressions point to. Here, in addition to livelihood matters, it is the way in which their words present the teenage boy in the period referred to by the correspondences that serve as the data for the analysis that is presented. Thus, this article focuses on the facts as presented showing the manner in which boyhood was portrayed in the very words of the boys themselves.
Keywords: Boyhood, colonial, urbanity, Lagos, livelihood. AU - Tunde Decker IS - 1 PY - 2020 SN - 2058-1963 ST - THE COLONIAL LAGOS BOY IN THE IBADAN ARCHIVES: A REVIEW OF THE STRUCTURAL CONTEXT TI - THE COLONIAL LAGOS BOY IN THE IBADAN ARCHIVES: A REVIEW OF THE STRUCTURAL CONTEXT T2 - Vestiges: Traces of Record UR - http://www.vestiges-journal.info/2020/pdf/decker_2020.pdf VL - 6 SP - 36 EP - 47 ER -