The Carter G. Woodson Institute
The Carter G. Woodson Institute
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Chrystel Oloukoi

Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Institution
Harvard University
Academic Year
2024
Affiliation
African-American Studies

Dissertation Title

Black Nocturnal: Ecologies of the Night in Lagos

Biography

This project explores the historical and ongoing conditions that make nighttime one of the most embattled terrains of life in Lagos as well as the quotidian ways people reclaim and inhabit nighttime as a site of possibility in the shadow of the ongoing catastrophe of racial capitalism.