Lagos

Early Lagosians - founders, colonial officials and local elites, urban growth and structure; locals and strangers - Yoruba, other Nigerians, non-Nigerians; politicians - national politicians, indigenes and strangers (Lagos State), local government, public political action (case studies); workers and entrepreneurs - industrialists and financialists, wage workers and trade unionists, the self-employed, the unemployed; families and basic needs - households, cost of living, education, health and welfare; rich and poor - clerics and followers, social activities, elites, anarchy and control; urbanites and suburbanites - architects and builders, landowners, private landlords/landladies, housing conditions, government as landlord; planners - LEDB and its successors; transporters, service providers; conclusion - whose city? - looking back, looking forward.