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AFRICAN SEMINARS: SCHOLARSHIP FROM THE INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE

Volume 3

PATRONS AND POWER

PATRONS AND POWER

Creating a Political Community in Metropolitan Lagos

SANDRA T. BARNES

First published in 1986 by Manchester University Press for the International African Institute

This edition first published in 2019
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1986 Sandra T. Barnes

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ISBN: 978-1-138-33510-3 (Set)
ISBN: 978-0-429-44366-4 (Set) (ebk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-00121-6 (Volume 3) (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-44443-2 (Volume 3) (ebk)

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PATRONS AND POWER

CREATING A POLITICAL COMMUNITY IN METROPOLITAN LAGOS

Sandra T. Barnes

Sandra T. Barnes 1986

Published by
Manchester University Press, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

British Library cataloguing in publication data

Barnes, Sandra T.

Patrons and power: creating a political community in metropolitan

Lagos.(International African library; v. 1)

1. UrbanizationNigeriaLagosHistory 2. Lagos (Nigeria)Social
conditions I. Title II. Series

307.76096691 HN831.L3

ISBN 0-7190-1944-3 cased only

Typeset in Linotron Plantin

by Northern Phototypesetting Co., Bolton

Printed in Great Britain

at the Alden Press, Oxford

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One of the most dramatic changes in our century has been the urbanisation of the worlds population. Accompanying this unprecedented demographic change has been a social change: the need for people to adapt themselves to new jobs, new friends, new ways of living together. It was the desire to discover peoples strategies for creating new lives that led me to Lagos and served as the guiding theme of my early research. Initially I concentrated on peoples first adaptations. How did they find jobs, shelter, spouses, and friends? How did they reconstruct kinship relationships? What voluntary ties did they establish? Only at the end of my first research period did I turn to the end point in constructing new lives a point which consisted of constructing new citizenship and with it a permanent commitment to a new place.

The beginning step in producing this book, then, was the realisation that one of the critical elements in adapting permanently to a new urban residence meant establishing rights to participate in local political affairs. The next step lay in capturing that process. Here I chose to concentrate on the pragmatic aspects of urban politics. How did people meet their material needs and goals? How did their desires draw them into the community? Where did the lines lead? And, most importantly, what were the ramifications? The third step was methodological, and here it was necessary to choose among many ways of acquiring data. I relied on the extended case study method, and added to it extensive interviews, and biographical, quantitative, and historical data.

Mushin caught my attention because of its frontier-like quality a recent suburb with a reputation for disorder and my anthropological predilection for investigating those domains where order is least expected. My attention was more than rewarded when it became clear that Mushin offered an arresting example of grassroots political activity, dominated neither by indigenous interests nor the national ruling elite. It was a community constructed by people of diverse backgrounds. In creating a community, residents were guided by the past, and their various cultural heritages; by the present, and a host of examples of contemporary political institutions and processes which were colonial legacies or post-colonial creations; and by their own opportunistic instincts and abilities to put together and even invent new combinations.

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