Cholera Epidemic, Government’s Interventions and Public Responses in the 1970s, Ìbàdàn, Nigeria
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dyck, Erika | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Horwitz, Simonne | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Dyck, Erika | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Napper, Scott | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Fisher, Kirsten | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Alhassan, Jacob | |
| dc.creator | Johnson, Sesan Michael | |
| dc.creator.orcid | 0000-0002-4275-6223 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-01T23:00:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-09-01T23:00:00Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2023 | |
| dc.date.created | 2023-08 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-09-01 | |
| dc.date.submitted | August 2023 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2023-09-01T23:00:00Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis uses an interdisciplinary approach to studying the Cholera epidemic in Ìbàdàn, Nigeria, in the 1970s. Cholera was considered a ‘stranger’ in the 1970s but is now endemic to the urban center of Ìbàdàn. This thesis demonstrates some of the historical reasons for this change from an interdisciplinary and social history perspective. Previous scholarship has focused more on its medical and epidemiological aspects, whereas I examine this epidemic as a social and medical history feature. I consider the cultural, socio-political, and historical explanations for its spread and persistence in this city. This thesis relies on the archived newspaper reports of the Nigerian Tribune, oral interviews, and indigenous songs that illustrate the cultural understanding of Cholera and its prevention. This thesis discusses how and why the people of Ìbàdàn gave Cholera multiple meanings, interpretations, and identities. I examine the Yorùbá language to expose how indigenous songs reinforced local beliefs about environmental conditions and the limits of public health interventions during the epidemic. The thesis critically discusses the indigenous methods adopted by local communities to curb Cholera, which sheds light on some of the tension that existed between Yorùbá understandings and Western biomedical depictions of the epidemic. Significantly, this thesis offers an understanding of how during an epidemic, health was perceived, formed, negotiated, resisted, nurtured, lived, and contested in places – public toilets, sewage, water system, riversides, and markets. In doing so, it reveals how the class structure, social attitudes, and living conditions affected how people responded to government public health orders, and in some cases, exacerbated the spread of Cholera. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10388/14945 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | Cholera, Epidemics, Ìbàdàn, Nigeria, Public Health, Africa | |
| dc.title | Cholera Epidemic, Government’s Interventions and Public Responses in the 1970s, Ìbàdàn, Nigeria | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.material | text | |
| thesis.degree.department | Interdisciplinary Studies | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | History | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Saskatchewan | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Science (M.Sc.) |