Lagos, Nigeria; a site of the circulation of people, commodities, and culture during the long nineteenth century. How did this locality change in the context of the trade in enslaved people, abolition, and the imposition of colonial rule? How did the development of a lucrative trade in vegetable oils, a crucial material for industrialization, impact encounters between Africans, Americans, and Europeans? Prof. Kristin Mann’s lecture will root Lagos’ origins and growth in ecology, geography as well as in relation to interactions between people living on the coast and further inland. It will interrogate the changing meanings and materialities of race, gender, and class from the perspectives of enslaved and freed Africans who lived through them, and themselves circulated across and in some cases around the Atlantic. Prof. Mann’s keynote will be on 8 July at 5pm (BST) – register here! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/myriad-materialities-tickets-156075039645

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