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African print cultures : newspapers and their publics in the twentieth century
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This inaugural volume in the African Perspectives series features the workof new and well-established scholars on the diversity and heterogeneityof African newspapers published from 1880 through th...
This inaugural volume in the African Perspectives series features the workof new and well-established scholars on the diversity and heterogeneityof African newspapers published from 1880 through the present.Newspapers played a critical role in spreading political awareness amongreaders who were subject to European colonial rule, often engaging inanticolonial and nationalist discourse or popularizing support for Africannationalism and Pan-Africanism. Newspapers also served as incubatorsof literary experimentation and new and varied cultural communities. The contributors highlight the actual practices of newspaper productionat different regional sites and historical junctures, while also developinga set of methodologies and theories of wider relevance to socialhistorians and literary scholars. The first of four thematic sections,"African Newspaper Networks," considers the work of newspapereditors and contributors in relating local events and concerns to issuesaffecting others across the continent and beyond.
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- edited by Derek R. Peterson, Emma Hunter, and Stephanie Newell
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- English
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- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
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- x, 447 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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- 0472053175, 9780472122134, 0472073176, 9780472053179, 0472122134, 9780472073177
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- ocn960701533, on1195816304, ocn944179754
- Papers presented at the 2013 meeting of the African Print Cultures Network, held July 2013 at the University of Birmingham, England.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print culture in colonial Africa / Derek R. Peterson and Emma Hunter -- Transatlantic passages : black identity construction in West African and West Indian newspapers, 1935-1950 / Leslie James -- Creole pioneers in the Nigerian provincial press / David Pratten -- The sociability of print : 1920s and 1930s Lagos newspaper travel writing / Rebecca Jones -- Colonial modernity and tradition : Herbert Macaulay, the newspaper press, and the (re)production of engaged publics in colonial Lagos / Wale Adebanwi -- Experiments with genre in Yoruba newspapers of the 1920s / Karin Barber -- Everyday poetry from Tanzania : microcosm of the newspaper genre / Kelly Askew -- Private entertainment magazines and popular literature production in socialist Tanzania / Uta Reuster-Jahn -- "True to life" : illuminating the processes and modes of Yoruba photoplays / Olubukola A. Gbadegesin -- Komkya and the convening of a Chagga public, 1953-1961 / Emma Hunter -- Making constituency in the province : the Osumare Egba (1935-1937) and the agenda of Ab'okuta modernization / Oluwatoyin Babatunde Oduntan -- "I will decide who will speak" : street parliaments and the newspaper ecology in Eldoret's Kamukunji / Duncan Omanga -- The afterlife of words : Magema Fuze, bilingual print journalism, and the making of a self-archive / Hlonipha Mokoena -- From corpse to corpus : the printing of death in colonial West Africa / Stephanie Newell -- Afterword / Stephanie Newell