Isotype in Africa: Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and the Western Region of Nigeria, 1952–8

Kindel, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9995-5891 (2025) Isotype in Africa: Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and the Western Region of Nigeria, 1952–8. In: Lees-Maffei, G. and Houze, R. (eds.) The Design History Reader. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350133518

Abstract/Summary

A review of projects done by Marie Neurath and the Isotype Institute in Britain's West African colonies during the 1950s, including in Sierra Leone, Gold Coast (Ghana), and most extensively in the Western Region of Nigeria. Discussion of these projects illustrates the means by which Isotype work was carried out in a non-Western context, the difficulties that were encountered, and the issues of effectiveness the work raised. Extracted from Kindel, E. (2013) 'Isotype in Africa: Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and the Western Region of Nigeria, 1952–8'. In: Burke, C., Kindel, E., and Walker, S. (eds.) Isotype: design and contexts, 1925–1971. Hyphen Press, London. ISBN 9780907259473