MorningFile: Nnamdi Nnake and the people behind Nigeria’s telegraph network
This week on MorningFile, Campus Media Content Coordinator George Elchuk speaks with Nnamdi Nnake, a PhD candidate and SSHRC doctoral research fellow at McMaster University, about his research into the history of communication technology in Nigeria.
Nnake is also the curator of Connected Histories: The Telegraph in Nigeria, a new exhibition at the McMaster Museum of Art. The exhibition explores how telegraph technology became intertwined with colonial governance, commerce, transportation and everyday life in Nigeria, while also highlighting the people whose labour kept the network…
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