Nation on Board

by Lynn Schler

  98. Ibid.

  99. Ship’s logbook: King Jaja, 31.10.73, entry: 30.11.73 at sea.

  100. Ship’s logbook: Salamat Ambi, 29.10.76, entry: 3.3.77 Hull.

  101. Ship’s logbook, River Benue, 26.7.72, posted message, no date.

  102. Ship’s logbook: el Kanemi, 29.7.72, posted message.

  103. Ship’s logbook: River Benue, 26.7.72, posted message, no date.

  104. Ship’s logbook: King Jaja, 31.10.73, entry: 8.3.74 at sea.

  105. Interview with Olukayode Akinsoji, 25 January 2011.

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  2. Bayo Holsey, “Black Atlantic Visions: History, Race, and Transnationalism in Ghana,” Cultural Anthropology 28, no. 3 (2013): 513.

  3. Jo Stanley, “And after the Cross-Dressed Cabin Boys and Whaling Wives? Possible Futures for Women’s Maritime Historiography,” Journal of Transport History 23, no. 1 (2002): 9–22.

  4. W. Jeffrey Bolster, Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997); Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2001).

  5. Lois E. Horton, “From Class to Race in Early America: Northern Post-Emancipation Racial Reconstruction,” Journal of the Early Republic 19, no. 4 (1999): 629–49.

  6. Pico Iyer, The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (New York: Random House, 2011), 24.

  7. Stuart Hall, “Political Belonging in a World of Multiple Identities,” in Conceiving Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Context and Practice, ed. Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 26.

  8. Richard Roberts, “History and Memory: The Power of Statist Narratives,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 33, no. 3 (2000): 513–22.

  9. Interview with Pa Agbaosi, 15 December 2007.

  10. Jon E. Fox and Cynthia Miller-Idriss, “Everyday Nationhood,” Ethnicities 8, no. 4 (2008): 542.

  11. Craig J. Calhoun, Nationalism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 5.

  12. Interview with Ari Festus, 24 December 2007.

  13. Interview with Muritala Olayinka alli-Balogun, 15 December 2007.

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