Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ABBREVIATIONS vii
4. AUTHOR’S NOTE ix
5. PREFACE. The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa (Dirtpol) Project xi
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
7. INTRODUCTION 1
8. 1 European Insanitary Nuisances 16
9. 2 Malaria: Lines in the Dirt 32
10. 3 African Newspapers, the “Great Unofficial Public,” and Plague in Colonial Lagos 43
11. 4 Screening Dirt: Public Health Movies in Colonial Nigeria and Rural Spectatorship in the 1930s and 1940s 58
12. 5 Methods, Unsound Methods, No Methods at All? 79
13. 6 Popular Perceptions of “Dirty” in Multicultural Lagos 90
14. 7 Remembering Waste 115
15. 8 City Sexualities: Negotiating Homophobia 142
16. CONCLUSION. Mediated Publics, Uncontrollable Audiences 158
17. APPENDIX. Words, Phrases, and Sayings Relating to Dirt in Lagos 169
18. NOTES 175
19. REFERENCES 215
20. INDEX 241