Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), 35–37.
Nehal El-Hadi, “Poetics, Politics, and Paradoxes of Sand,” Slow Factory, 2022, ➝.
Ben Mendelsohn, “Making the Urban Coast: A Geosocial Reading of Land, Sand, and Water in Lagos, Nigeria,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 38, no. 3 (December 2018): 455–472.
Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021), 63.
Kunle Akinsemoyin and Vaughan-Richards, Building Lagos (Jersey: Pengrail, 1977), 4.
Tiffany Lethabo King, The Black Shoals (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019), 4.
Babyboy AV, “Confession,” Confession, 2021, MP3.
Alexander Ghedi Weheliye, Habeas Viscus (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014), 4.
Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021), 167–71; Fred Moten, Black and Blur (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017).
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (New York: Autonomedia, 2013).
Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019).
Ijoba Wayde, “Hard Life,” 2022, MP3. See ➝.
Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, 18.
A. M. Simone, “People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg,” Public Culture 16, no. 3, (Fall 2004): 407-429; A. M. Simone, “Ritornello: ‘People as Infrastructure’,” Urban Geography 42, no. 9, (2021): 1341-1348.
In this context in Nigerian pidgin “dey” refers to “being.”
A. M. Simone, Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South (New York: Wiley, 2018).
Stephanie Busari, Nima Elbagir, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase, and Barbara Arvanitidis, “Nigerian Judicial Panel Condemns 2020 Lekki Toll Gate Shooting as ‘a Massacre’,” CNN, November 16, 2021, ➝; Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry, “LASG JPI Report of Lekki Incident Investigation of 20th October 2020,” 13–14, ➝.
Ibid.
Reekado Banks, “Ozumba Mbadiwe,” ORT Vol. 2, 2021, MP3.
