Voter registration in the Western Region of Nigeria

booklet cover, Marie Neurath / Isotype Institute, 1955, 205 x 165 mm, (I.C. 7.1, 'N')

Some of the most significant work done by the Isotype Institute as consultants to the Western Region of Nigeria involved the registration of voters, and instructions on how and where to vote. In addition to booklets produced for successive election cycles in 1956 and 1957 (above, for 1956), Isotype designed accompanying posters that encouraged participation, and identified registration offices and polling stations (below, in Yoruba: 510 × 760 mm).

While it is now impossible to measure, the registration and voting work apparently had an important impact, as Marie Neurath recalled: 'the minister for local government, Rotimi Williams, told me later in London that their voters' turn-out had been twice the figure in Eastern Nigeria; and they were sure that this was due to our pamphlet [booklet].' (EK)

area of research: Isotype in British colonial West Africa (Kindel)