Death in a Black Maria: Transport as punishment in an African carceral state
In March 1980, fifty men suffocated to death in the back of a police van, known as a Black Maria, in Lagos, Nigeria. In the Black Maria Tragedy, as it came to be called, several currents of Nigeria’s postcolonial history converged. They included the persistent problem of crime, the question of how m...
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| Language: | English |
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2022
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Punishment & society
Year: 2022, Volume: 24, Issue: 5, Pages: 857-872 |
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