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Breaking new ground in the understanding of sexuality's complex relationship to colonialism, When Sex Threatened the State illuminates the attempts at regulating prostitution in colonial Nigeria.<br> <br> As Saheed Aderinto shows, British colonizers saw prostitution as an African form of sexual primitivity and a problem to be solved as part of imperialism's "civilizing mission". He details the Nigerian response to imported sexuality laws and the contradictory ways both African and British reform

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Author

Saheed Aderinto

Publisher

Urbana: University of Illinois Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780252096846

Category

social science

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science

Updated

2026-03-24