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At first sight it might be expected that West Africa would provide a case in which psychiatrization would serve as an instrument of the rule of White over Black. But in fact Britain invested little faith or money in asylums in the biggest West African colony, Nigeria. 31 As is so often the case, the empire can offer a mirror for what was going on in the metropolitan domains. How far were the mad poor and other disadvantaged groups in London, Paris or New York being treated as colonized people? 32 The case of Nigeria suggests that institutionalization and psychiatrization were less the bold and clear instruments of policy than the foci of uncertainties, muddles, conflicts and indecisions.
One relates to evidence. In many cases, important archives have been inaccessible to historians, or their astonishing richness of case material and documentation has overwhelmed the scholar. As the article below by Andrea D¨orries in particular suggests, computer software is making it possible to overcome 30 31 32 See also S. Garton, Medicine and Madness: A Social History of Insanity in New South Wales, 1880–1940 (Kensington, Australia, 1988); M. James Lewis, Managing Madness: Psychiatry and Society in Australia 1788–1980 (Canberra, 1988).
30 But once again the story proves more complex than it might seem. At first sight it might be expected that West Africa would provide a case in which psychiatrization would serve as an instrument of the rule of White over Black. But in fact Britain invested little faith or money in asylums in the biggest West African colony, Nigeria. 31 As is so often the case, the empire can offer a mirror for what was going on in the metropolitan domains. How far were the mad poor and other disadvantaged groups in London, Paris or New York being treated as colonized people?