Evolving Trends in Nigerian History

Historical research on Nigerian history has continued to conform with existing theoretical expositions, while continuing to explore new trends. These new trends problematize what constitutes sources and agency in Nigerian history. They engage with new sources, reread existing ones and offer new theoretical insights that are compelling scholars to rethink existing paradigms. The authors of the papers in this panel are concerned with medical history from the perspectives of visuality—that is, using motion pictures to study medical history, rethinking the Africanity of colonial architecture, asking new questions about environment degradation that is responsible for violence, and intersections of technology and infrastructure in Africa.