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Africa's Hidden Histories Everyday Literacy and Making the Self

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ISBN-10: 0253218438

ISBN-13: 9780253218438

Edition: 2006

Authors: Karin Barber

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Colonial Africa saw an explosion of writing and printing, produced and circulated not only by highly educated and visible elites, but also by wage labourers, clerks, village headmasters, traders, and other obscure aspirants to elite status. The ability to read and write in English was considered essential for educated persons, and Africans from all walks of life strove to participate in the new literary culture. Karin Barber and an international group of Africanist scholars have uncovered a trove of personal diaries, letters, obituaries, pamphlets, and booklets stored away in tin-trunks, suitcases, and cabinets that reveal individuals involved in the new occupation of the colonial…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Karin Barber is Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. She is author of The Generation of Plays (IUP, 2000), which won the Herskovits Award, and editor of Readings in African Popular Culture (IUP, 1997).

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