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Informationen zum Autor Viviane Saleh-Hanna is Assistant Professor of Crime and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Dr. Saleh-Hanna is a criminologist turned abolitionist. Coptic and Palestinian in origin, Canadian in citizenship and PanAfricanist in her heart, she is an activist-scholar. Prior to moving to the United States, she lived in Nigeria and worked with prisoners along the West African coastline. Her book, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria (2008) is the first to include first-hand accounts by prisoners in West Africa and the first to provide an in-depth analysis of life inside West African prisons. Klappentext A pioneering study of prisons in West Africa. Personal accounts by prisoners of Kirikiri maximum security prison present the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while chapters by scholars and activists contextualize the colonial legacies that have created systemic human rights violations. Zusammenfassung Focusing on prisons in West Africa! this book presents the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while contextualizing the colonial legacies that have resulted in the inhumane brutalities that are endured on a daily basis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements ......................................................................xvii ForewordJulia Sudbury .............................................................................xxi Chapter 1: Introduction: Colonial Systems of ControlViviane Saleh-Hanna ..................................................................... 1 SECTION I: CONTEXTUALIZING NIGERIA Chapter 2: Penal ColonialityViviane Saleh-Hanna ................................................................... 17 Chapter 3: An Evolution of the Penal System: Criminal Justice in NigeriaViviane Saleh-Hanna and Chukwuma Ume .............................. 55 Chapter 4: The Militarization of Nigerian SocietyBiko Agozino and Unyierie Idem ................................................ 69 SECTION II: NIGERIAN PRISONS: VOICES FROM INSIDE Chapter 5: Another Face of SlaveryOsadolor Eribo ........................................................................... 121 Chapter 6: My Nigerian Prison ExperienceClever Akporherhe ..................................................................... 127 Chapter 7: My StoryChris Affor ................................................................................. 131 Chapter 8: A Tribute to Solidarity: My OasisChris Affor ................................................................................. 141 Chapter 9: June 14, 2003Igho Odibo ................................................................................. 147 Chapter 10: The System I Have Come to KnowSylvester Monday Anagaba ...................................................... 149 Chapter 11: Man's Inhumanity to ManSylvester Monday Anagaba ...................................................... 153 Chapter 12: Patriotism: Illusion or Reality?Osadolor Eribo ........................................................................... 157 SECTION III: COLONIAL SYSTEMS OF IMPRISONMENT: GENDER, POVERTY AND MENTAL HEALTH IN PRISON Chapter 13: Nigerian Penal InteractionsViviane Saleh-Hanna ................................................................. 173 Chapter 14: Women's Rights behind WallsMechthild Nagel ........................................................................ 223 Chapter 15: Nigerian Women in Prison: Hostages in LawBiko Agozino ............................................................................. 245 Chapter 16: Protecting the Human Rights of People with Mental Health Disabilities in African PrisonsUju Agomoh .............................................................................. 267 SECTION IV: R...
