African Print Cultures: Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2017), x, 447 pp.
Series: African Perspectives
ISBN 978-0-472-12213-4
"The first of four thematic sections, “African Newspaper Networks,” considers the work that newspaper editors did to relate events within their locality to happenings in far-off places. This work of correlation and juxtaposition made it possible for distant people to see themselves as fellow travellers. “Experiments with Genre” explores how newspapers nurtured the development of new literary genres, such as poetry, realist fiction, photoplays, and travel writing in African languages and in English. “Newspapers and Their Publics” looks at the ways in which African newspapers fostered the creation of new kinds of communities and served as networks for public interaction, political and otherwise. The final section, “Afterlives, ” is about the longue durée of history that newspapers helped to structure, and how, throughout the twentieth century, print allowed contributors to view their writing as material meant for posterity." (Publisher description)
1 Print Culture in Colonial Africa / Derek R. Peterson and Emma Hunter, 1
PART I: AFRICAN NEWSPAPER NETWORKS
2 Transatlantic Passages: Black Identity Construction in West African and West Indian Newspapers, 1935-1950 / Leslie James, 49
3 Creole Pioneers in the Nigerian Provincial Press / David Pratten, 75
4 The Sociability of Print: 1920s and 1930s Lagos Newspaper Travel Writing / Rebecca Jones, 102
5 Colonial Modernity and Tradition: Herbert Macaulay, the Newspaper Press, and the (Re)Production of Engaged Publics in Colonial Lagos / Wale Adebanwi, 125
PART II: EXPERIMENTS WITH GENRE
6 Experiments with Genre in Yoruba Newspapers of the 1920s / Karin Barber, 151
7 Everyday Poetry from Tanzania: Microcosm of the Newspaper Genre / Kelly Askew, 179
8 Private Entertainment Magazines and Popular Literature Production in Socialist Tanzania / Uta Reuster-Jahn, 224
9 "True to Life": Illuminating the Processes and Modes of Yoruba Photoplays / Olubukola A. Gbadegesin, 251
PART III: NEWSPAPERS AND THEIR PUBLICS
10 Komkya and the Convening of a Chagga Public, 1953-1961 / Emma Hunter, 283
11 Making Constituency in the Province: The Osumare Egba (1935-1937) and the Agenda of Abeokuta Modernization / Oluwatoyin Babatunde Oduntan, 306
12 "I will decide who will speak": Street Parliaments and the Newspaper Ecology in Eldoret's Kamukunji / Duncan Omanga, 335
IV. AFTERLIVES
13 The Afterlife of Words: Magema Fuze, Bilingual Print Journalism, and the Making of a Self-Archive / Hlonipha Mokoena, 361
14 From Corpse to Corpus: The Printing of Death in Colonial West Africa / Stephanie Newell, 389
15 Afterword / Stephanie Newell, 425
PART I: AFRICAN NEWSPAPER NETWORKS
2 Transatlantic Passages: Black Identity Construction in West African and West Indian Newspapers, 1935-1950 / Leslie James, 49
3 Creole Pioneers in the Nigerian Provincial Press / David Pratten, 75
4 The Sociability of Print: 1920s and 1930s Lagos Newspaper Travel Writing / Rebecca Jones, 102
5 Colonial Modernity and Tradition: Herbert Macaulay, the Newspaper Press, and the (Re)Production of Engaged Publics in Colonial Lagos / Wale Adebanwi, 125
PART II: EXPERIMENTS WITH GENRE
6 Experiments with Genre in Yoruba Newspapers of the 1920s / Karin Barber, 151
7 Everyday Poetry from Tanzania: Microcosm of the Newspaper Genre / Kelly Askew, 179
8 Private Entertainment Magazines and Popular Literature Production in Socialist Tanzania / Uta Reuster-Jahn, 224
9 "True to Life": Illuminating the Processes and Modes of Yoruba Photoplays / Olubukola A. Gbadegesin, 251
PART III: NEWSPAPERS AND THEIR PUBLICS
10 Komkya and the Convening of a Chagga Public, 1953-1961 / Emma Hunter, 283
11 Making Constituency in the Province: The Osumare Egba (1935-1937) and the Agenda of Abeokuta Modernization / Oluwatoyin Babatunde Oduntan, 306
12 "I will decide who will speak": Street Parliaments and the Newspaper Ecology in Eldoret's Kamukunji / Duncan Omanga, 335
IV. AFTERLIVES
13 The Afterlife of Words: Magema Fuze, Bilingual Print Journalism, and the Making of a Self-Archive / Hlonipha Mokoena, 361
14 From Corpse to Corpus: The Printing of Death in Colonial West Africa / Stephanie Newell, 389
15 Afterword / Stephanie Newell, 425
