Timeline of Lagos

The following is a timeline of the history of the metropolis of Lagos, Nigeria.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Prior to 19th century

19th century

Detail of 1898 map showing Lagos, Nigeria

20th century

1901–1959

Colonial era Lagos, ca.1910
Colonialists on the tennis courts Government House in Lagos., ca.1910
Lagos, 1912
Aerial photograph of Lagos in 1929

1960–1999

21st century

Lagos, 2008
Lagos, 2010
Lagos, 2011

See also

References

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  3. 1 2 Smith 1979.
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  20. 1 2 Fourchard 2012.
  21. 1 2 Toyin Falola (2001). Culture and Customs of Nigeria. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-31338-7.
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  23. 1 2 Anthony Olden (1995), "The Lagos Library", Libraries in Africa, Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, ISBN 0810830930
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  25. ↑ "Cathedral's History". Cathedral Church of Christ, Lagos. Archived from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
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  31. 1 2 3 State of the World's Cities 2004/2005: Globalization and Urban Culture. UN-HABITAT. 2004. ISBN 978-92-1-131705-3.
  32. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Past Governors". Lagos State Government. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
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  43. ↑ Nigerian Ports Authority. "Tin Can Island Port Complex". Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  44. 1 2 New York Times 2014.
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  52. ↑ "Makoko Floating School, beacon of hope for the Lagos 'waterworld", The Guardian, A History of Cities in 50 Buildings, 2 June 2015
  53. ↑ Helicopter crashes into lagoon in Nigeria's Lagos, Reuters, 13 August 2015

Bibliography

Published in 19th-20th centuries

  • Thomas Spencer Baynes, ed. (1890), "Lagos", Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.), NY: Allen
  • Nigeria. Chief Secretary's Office (1919), The Nigeria handbook containing statistical and general information respecting the colony and protectorate, Lagos: Government Printer, OCLC 44555135
  • Evelyn Irons (1961), "Lagos", Nigeria, Garden City, N.Y: N. Doubleday, OL 5817574M (children's book)
  • Historical events: Lagos and environs, 1862-1962. Lagos: Federal Census Office. 1962. OCLC 48631290.
  • Peter Marris (1962). Family and social change in an African city: a study of rehousing in Lagos. US: Northwestern University Press – via Hathi Trust.
  • Richard L. Sklar (1963). "Origins of the Two-Party System in Lagos". Nigerian Political Parties: Power in an Emergent African Nation. Africa World Press. p. 41+. ISBN 978-1-59221-209-5.
  • Reuben K. Udo (1970). "Lagos Metropolitan District". Geographical Regions of Nigeria. University of California Press.
  • Robert Sydney Smith (1979). The Lagos Consulate, 1851-1861. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03746-5.
  • Tom G. Forrest (1994). "Lagos Enterprises". The Advance of African Capital: The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise. University of Virginia Press. pp. 86–130. ISBN 978-0-8139-1562-3.
  • "Nigeria: Lagos", West Africa (4th ed.), Lonely Planet, 1999, pp. 710+, OL 8314753M
  • Ayodeji Olukoju (2000). "Cost of Living in Lagos 1914–45". In David Anderson; et al. Africa's Urban Past. Oxford: James Currey Publishers. ISBN 978-0-85255-761-7.
  • Rem Koolhaas; et al. (2000). "Lagos". Mutations. Barcelona: ACTAR. ISBN 9788495273536.

Published in 21st century

2000s

  • Okwui Enwezor, ed. (2002). Under Siege: Four African Cities, Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3-7757-9090-1. Documenta11 + website
  • Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Lagos, Nigeria". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
  • Hakeem Tijani (2004). "'New' Lagos Town Council and Urban Administration, 1950–1953". In Toyin Falola; et al. Nigerian Cities. Africa World Press. pp. 255+. ISBN 978-1-59221-169-2.
  • Ayodeji Olukoju (2004). The 'Liverpool' of West Africa: The Dynamics and Impact of Maritime Trade in Lagos, 1900-1950. Africa World Press. ISBN 978-1-59221-292-7.
  • Ayodeji Olukoju (2005). "Lagos: Die Geburt einer Stadt". In Jürg Schneider; et al. Die Reisen Von Carl Passavant 1883–1885 (in German). Museum der Kulturen Basel.
  • Kevin Shillington, ed. (2005). "Lagos". Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6.
  • Kristin Mann (2007). Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-11708-9.

2010s

  • O.E. Aluko (2010), "Impact of Urbanization on Housing Development: The Lagos Experience, Nigeria", Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies and Management, 3.3
  • Michaela Alejandra Oberhofer (2012), "Fashioning African Cities: The Case of Johannesburg, Lagos and Douala", Streetnotes (20), ISSN 2159-2926 – via California Digital Library
  • Peter Probst (2012). "Lagos-Oshodi". In Kerstin Pinther; et al. Afropolis: City Media Art. Jacana Media. p. 138+. ISBN 978-1-4314-0325-7.
  • Highlights of Lagos history: 1839-2012. Lagos State Records and Archives Bureau. 2012. OCLC 841475312.
  • Simon Heap (2012). "'Their Days are Spent in Gambling and Loafing, Pimping for Prostitutes, and Picking Pockets': Male Juvenile Delinquents on Lagos Island, 1920s-1960s". In Saheed Aderinto and Paul Osifodunrin. Third Wave of Historical Scholarship on Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Ayodeji Olukoju. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-4712-4.
  • Laurent Fourchard (2012). "Lagos and the Invention of Juvenile Delinquency in Nigeria". In Saheed Aderinto and Paul Osifodunrin. Third Wave of Historical Scholarship on Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Ayodeji Olukoju. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-4712-4.
  • Ayodeji Olukoju (2012). "Anatomy of Fire Outbreaks in Lagos, Nigeria, 1980–2008". In Greg Bankoff; et al. Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World. US: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 353–371. ISBN 978-0-299-28383-4.
  • Bonny Ibhawoh (2013). "Imperial Cosmopolitanism and the Making of an Indigenous Intelligentsia: African Lawyers in Colonial Urban Lagos". In Elizabeth Fay and Leonard von Morze. Urban Identity and the Atlantic World. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-20555-1.
  • Kaye Whiteman (2013). Lagos: A Cultural History. Interlink Publishing. ISBN 978-1-62371-040-8.
  • Ayodeji Olukoju (2014). "Port of Lagos, 1850–1929". In Miguel Bosa Suirez. Atlantic Ports and the First Globalisation C. 1850-1930. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 112–129. ISBN 978-1-137-32798-7.
  • Seth D. Kaplan (7 January 2014), "What Makes Lagos a Model City", New York Times
  • "In Lagos, the 1% Takes Stock", New York Times, 25 April 2014
  • L. Sawyer (2014). "Piecemeal urbanisation at the peripheries of Lagos". African Studies. 73.
  • Lakin Ogunbanwo (23 March 2015), "Insider's cultural guide to Lagos", The Guardian
  • "Nigeria in pictures: Lagos facelift", BBC News, 11 May 2015, Lagos has had a makeover over the last decade (photos)
  • Simon Heap (2015). "Processing Juvenile Delinquents at the Salvation Army's Boys' Industrial Home in Lagos, 1925–1944.". In Saheed Aderinto. Children and Childhood in Colonial Nigerian Histories. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1-137-49293-7. templatestyles stripmarker in |title= at position 89 (help)
  • Map of Lagos, 1962
  • Map of Lagos, 1984
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  • Jürg Schneider, Rosario Mazuela and Erin Haney (ed.). "(Photos of Lagos and vicinity)". Africaphotography.org. Photography of West Africa and beyond, 1840 to now

Coordinates: 6°27′11″N 3°23′45″E / 6.45306°N 3.39583°E / 6.45306; 3.39583

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