heed Aderinto is a Ph.D. student at the Department of History, University of Texas at Austin. Some of his most recent publications include “Prostitution and Urban Social Relations” and “Policing Urban Prostitution: Prostitutes, Crime, Law and Reformers in Colonial Nigeria” in Nigeria’s Urban History: Past and Present (2006) and “Discrimination in an Urban Setting: Th e Experience of Ijebu Settlers in Colonial Ibadan, 1893–1960” in Intergroup Relations in Nigeria during the 19th 20th Centuries (2006). His writings have also appeared in IFRA Special Research Issue, Ethnic and Th ird World Review of Books, African and Asian Studies Journal, and Th e Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work (2006).