Environmental sanitation in Nigeria: colonial and contemporary

Stock, Robert

doi:10.1080/03056248808703772

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“…Communities that square measure longing for ways in which to assist stop climate changes ought to get it on by implementing and integrated solid waste management program. (Stock R. 2010) The state's preoccupation with sanitation reached a peak in 1985 during the later months of Buhari regime. Environmental sanitation was chosen as the theme for the fifth phase of the War Against Indiscipline (WAI), which was launched in Kano on 29 th July, 1985 by the then chief of staff, supreme headquarters, Major-General Idiagbon.…”

Section: Impact Of Solid Waste On Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

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2018

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Section: Impact Of Solid Waste On Climate Changementioning

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2018

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“…Indeed, Odihi's (2003) detailed description of the disruptive effect of fossil fuel shortages across northern Nigeria in the mid-1990s provides confirmation of the strategic awareness demonstrated by the Katsina firewood dealers. Similarly, official proposals during the late-1980s and early-1990s were designed to achieve large-scale spatial reorganisation of the urban woodfuel trade in Kano as part of wider -and controversialenvironmental sanitation initiatives which were themselves integral components of a statesponsored War Against Indiscipline (Stock 1988).…”

Section: Woodfuel Dependence In a Fossil Fuel Era: Re-framing The 'Enmentioning

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Wood energy interventions and development in Kano, Nigeria: A longitudinal, ‘situated’ perspective

Cline‐Cole

Maconachie

2016

Land Use Policy

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This paper provides a longitudinal, critical overview of woodfuel interventions in Kano and northern dryland Nigeria. Woodfuel still accounts for up to two-thirds of energy consumption, yet fuelwood-related issues are often 'by-products' of 'higher priority' energy-environmentdevelopment preoccupations. We suggest that energy policy has historically reflected preoccupations dominated by fossil fuel and new and renewable energy concerns, thereby raising questions about whether and to what extent such interventions reflect a desire to address woodfuel in its own right. The paper adopts a selective critique of some foundational assumptions about the energy-poverty-development nexus, notably in relation to energy transition theory and practice, to explain such outcomes and their practical and policy implications. In doing so, the analysis places particular emphasis on context, to demonstrate why the role of 'situatedness' must be better appreciated in energy circles and, equally importantly, acted upon during woodfuel interventions. More meaningful interventions, the paper concludes, should be based less on insights deriving from generic (wood) energy systems, hierarchies and relations, and considerably more on the lessons to be learned from the dynamic and complex realities of actual (wood) energy practices, networks and economies. In this, as in much else, context remains key.

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“…In merely renovating a politics of urban sanitation focused on local policing and individualized responsibility, with roots in the zonal and hierarchical mechanisms of colonial urban sanitation (Stock 1988: 21-3)and inadequate to the huge growth experienced in the post-colonial city, not to mention the increase in post-consumer waste resulting from the Nigerian oil boom of the 1970sthe War Against Indiscipline never sought to engage with the exigencies of rapidly growing and industrializing cities. Cosmetic attention was paid to longstanding and highly visible waste disposal problems: neither water and sewage needs nor the threat of environmental pollution from industry were to be tackled in a concerted manner.…”

Section: Sanitarianmentioning

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‘Environmental Akalism’ and the War on Filth: The Personification of Sanitation in Urban Nigeria

Manton¹

2013

Africa

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In Nigerian cities, as across much of Africa, sanitation practices at zone, ward and street levels inscribe – in patterns of circulation and interaction around waste – not only the hopes and fears of urban residents and managers, but also the aspirations and failures encoded in colonial and post-colonial national and regional histories. Adjusting to numerous challenges – the interplay of racist colonial zoning strategies, rapid post-colonial urban expansion, the withdrawal of public services amid the liberalization programmes of the 1980s, the increasingly abject character of the social contract, and the ongoing tenuousness of economic life and activity – urban environmental sanitation in Nigeria has long struggled to keep pace with the historical dynamics of the country's emergent metropolises. Following the activities of a cohort of inspectors and volunteers at the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Oyo State, this article examines the politics of performance and coercion surrounding the monthly observance of Environmental Sanitation Day in Ibadan amid the heightened political tensions of the electoral season in 2011.

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Environmental sanitation in Nigeria: colonial and contemporary

Cited by 21 publications

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Wood energy interventions and development in Kano, Nigeria: A longitudinal, ‘situated’ perspective

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