African print cultures : newspapers and their publics in the twentieth century / edited by Derek R. Peterson, Emma Hunter, and Stephanie Newell.

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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 the present.Newspapers played a critical role in spreading political awareness amongreaders who were subj...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: African Print Cultures Network. Meeting
Other Authors: Peterson, Derek R., 1971- (Editor)
Hunter, Emma, 1980- (Editor)
Newell, Stephanie, 1968- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2016.
Series:African perspectives
Subjects:
African newspapers > History > 20th century.
Newspaper reading > Social aspects > Africa.
African newspapers.
Newspaper reading > Social aspects.
Africa.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:x, 447 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.