... Photography intrinsic to life in Nigeria since its earliest inception continues in popularity despite the ubiquity of the smartphone. The claim “we are moving with technology” amidst precarity, conflict and instability serves as a point of deep reflection posing alternative sightlines...

... This chapter argues that the convergence of two major world and regional religious movements—the Islamic reformist movement that established the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria and the Christian evangelical movement in Atlantic Southern Nigeria—provided the social and political platform...

... Nigeria Protectorate in the first half of the twentieth century. The chapter also explores how colonial rule set the framework for Muslim and Christian collective political action in this vast region by the end of the Second World War, when the British authorities embarked on a process of decolonization...

... The chapter explores the contradictory impact of mission Christianity on colonial Northern and Southern Nigeria. It contends that in the Northern Nigerian Protectorate mission Christianity provided a formidable framework in which non-Muslim minority communities articulated strategies to resist...