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• Winner of Dan David Prize 2023

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“By embracing nonhuman animals within the historical frame, Saheed Aderinto significantly expands our understanding of the African colonial encounter. With his fresh conceptual analysis, liberated from narrow disciplinary strictures, the author’s multifaceted research is a tour de force set to change the trajectory of African historiography.” “We have missed a major story of empire by failing to understand its operations at the level of species. Saheed Aderinto’s tremendous book challenges us to see Nigeria, colonial subjecthood, and all animals in integrative and provocative new ways."" “This book is a wonderful addition to animal-sensitive histories of Africa, offering an important contribution toward rethinking coloniality and postcoloniality by adding the analytic lens of species to a palimpsest of gender, class, and race. Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa reconsiders the history of relations not only between people and animals but also between various groups of people with animals as a fulcrum.”

By embracing nonhuman animals within the historical frame, Aderinto significantly expands our understanding of the African colonial encounter. With his fresh conceptual analysis, liberated from narrow disciplinary strictures, the author's multifaceted research is a tour de force set to change the trajectory of African historiography. -- Jane Carruthers, author of National Park Science: A Century of Research in South Africa We have missed a major story of empire by failing to understand its operations at the level of species. Saheed Aderinto's tremendous book challenges us to see Nigeria, colonial subjecthood, and all animals in integrative and provocative new ways. -- Alan Mikhail, author of The Animal in Ottoman Egypt and God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World This book is a wonderful addition to animal-sensitive histories of Africa, offering an important contribution towards rethinking coloniality and postcoloniality by adding the analytic lens of species to a palimpsest of gender, class, and race. Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa reconsiders the history of relations not only between people and animals but also between various groups of people with animals as a fulcrum. -- Sandra Swart, author of Riding High: Horses, Humans and History in South Africa

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Saheed Aderinto is a professor of history and African and African diaspora studies at Florida International University. He is the author of Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria: Firearms, Culture, and Public Order and When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900–1958.

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