The Meat of the Story: Cattle Capitalism, Nutrition Science and Veterinary Public Health in Nigerian History, 1878–1960

The study explores the social histories of colonial veterinary and nutrition sciences vis-a-vis livestock capitalism in Nigeria within the context of the entangled relationship between human and animal health. Using meat as a window on the British colonial empire, and by adopting the more-than-human perspectives of multispecies studies, I am centering the intersections of human and animal health, taking animals as veritable subjects and agents of historical change as much as humans.