Abstract
This article, focusing on child kidnapping, examines the involvement ofstrangers and indigenes in the commission of the offence in late colonialLagos. Although it was good to think that strangers were the perpetrators ofthis heinous crime against defenceless children, I argue on the basis ofwritten evidence in colonial newspapers and records that both strangers andindigenes perpetrated the crime. But unlike the offender-indigenes thatoperated within a protective societal structure that concealed their identity,the strangers who often acted alone and were not fully integrated into theLagos society had no hiding place as they were easily identified, reported andprosecuted by the colonial administration.
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