With this multispecies study of animals as instrumentalities of the
colonial state in Nigeria, Saheed Aderinto argues that animals,
like humans, were colonial subjects in Africa. Animality and
Colonial Subjecthood in Africa broadens the historiography of
animal studies by putting a diverse array of species (dogs, horses,
livestock, and wildlife) into a single analytical framework for
understanding colonialism in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. From
his study of animals with unequal political, economic, social, and
intellectual capabilities, Aderinto establishes that the core
dichotomies of human colonial subjecthood--indispensable yet
disposable, good and bad, violent but peaceful, saintly and
lawless--were also embedded in the identities of Nigeria's animal
inhabitants. If class, religion, ethnicity, location, and attitude
toward imperialism determined the pattern of relations between
human Nigerians and the colonial government, then species, habitat,
material value, threat, and biological and psychological
characteristics (among other traits) shaped imperial perspectives
on animal Nigerians. Conceptually sophisticated and intellectually
engaging, Aderinto's thesis challenges readers to rethink what
constitutes history and to recognize that human agency and
narrative are not the only makers of the past.
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