A History of Urban Planning in Two West African Colonial Capitals: Residential Segregation in British Lagos and French Dakar (1850-1930)

This work is concerned with the perception and realisation of residential segregation in two major colonial capitals in West Africa. The history and the form of residential segregation Lagos, a chief port and an adminsttrative and Commerical centre and in Dakar, the capital of the AOF, are traced from the establishment of the official colonial rule in the mid-nineteen century to the inter-war period.