Death and the Textile Industry in Nigeria

Abstract

This book draws upon thinking about the work of the dead in the context of deindustrialization-specifically, the decline of the textile industry in Kaduna, Nigeria-and its consequences for deceased workers' families.The author shows how the dead work in various ways for Christians and Muslims who worked in KTL mill in Kaduna, not only for their families who still hope to receive termination remittances, but also as connections to extended family members in other parts of Nigeria and as claims to land and houses in Kaduna. Building upon their actions as a way of thinking about the ways that the dead work for the living, the author focuses on three major themes. The first considers the growth of the city of Kaduna as a colonial construct which, as the capital of the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria, was organized by neighborhoods, by public cemeteries, and by industrial areas. The second theme examines the establishment of textile mills in the industrial area and new ways of thinking about work and labor organization, time regimens, and health, particularly occupational ailments documented in mill clinic records. The third theme discusses the consequences of KTL mill workers' deaths for the lives of their widows and children. This book will be of interest to scholars of African studies, development studies, anthropology of work, and the history of industrialization.

Digitalisation and Green Strategies: A systematic review of the Textile, Apparel and Fashion Industries

“…In some developing countries, obsolete or outdated technologies have limited the operations and outputs of the TAF industries [6,7], and in many cases, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contributions from the industries have signi cantly reduced in some countries [2]. In some countries like Nigeria, the industry is as good as dead, with most of the known textile rms, such as Kaduna Textile Limited mill, closed [8,9]. On the one hand, there is a need to determine whether the digital transformation is easy for TAF Industries to achieve.…”