Recovering Lost Ground in Old Eko

Chapter 4 analyzes the six dozen land grants that Oba Dosunmu gave out in the 150s and 1860s. These remarkable grants have not survived intact, but Imagine Lagos uses the surviving evidence to reconstruct how the city expanded east across Lagos Island.

One of the handful of streets named for African American men in Lagos. Joseph Harden was a missionary
Another street named after a man from the African diaspora: Campbell Street was named for Robert Campbell, the Jamaican educator who settled in Lagos in the 1850s. His newspaper, the Anglo African, is an important source of Lagos in the 1860s.

Spyglass over Òké Pòpó and Èpétèdó quarters