Africa's hidden histories :  everyday literacy and making the self / 
edited by Karin Barber. 
 - Bloomington, IN :  Indiana University Press,  c2006. 
 - x, 451 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - African expressive cultures .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>  "My own life" : A.K. Boakye Yiadom's autobiography - the writing and subjectivity of a Ghanaian teacher-catechist /   "What is our intelligence, our school going and our reading of bo oks without getting money?" : Akinpelu Obisesan and his diary /   The letters of Louisa Mvemve /   E kukhanyeni letter-writers : a historical inquiry into epistolary networ k(s) and political imagination in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa /   Reasons for writing : African working-class letter-wri ting in early-twentieth-century South Africa /   Keeping a diary of visions : Lazarus Phelalasekhaya Maphumulo and t he Edendale congregation of AmaNazaretha /   Schoolgi rl pregnancies, letter-writing, and "modern" persons in late colonial E ast Africa /   Entering the territory of elites : literary activity in colonial Ghana /   The Ba ntu world and the world of the book : reading, writing, and "enlightenm ent" /   Reading debating/debating reading : the case of the Lovedale Literary Society, or why Mandela quotes Shake speare /   present battle is the brain ba ttle" : writing and publishing a Kikuyu newspaper in the pre-Mau Mau pe riod in Kenya /   Public but private : a transformational reading of the memoirs and newspaper writings of Merc y Ffoulkes-Crabbe /   Writing, reading, and prin ting death : obituaries and commemoration in Asante /   Writing, genre, and a schoolmaster's inventions in the Yoruba pro vinces /   Innovation and persistence : literary ci rcles, new opportunities, and continuing debates in Hausa literary prod uction /   Stephan F. Miescher --   Ruth Watson --   Catherine Burns --   Vuki le Khumalo --   Keith Breckenridge --   Liz Gunner --   Lynn M. Thomas --   Stephanie Newell --   Bhekizizwe Peterson --   Isabel Hofmeyr --   Bodil Folke Frederiksen --   Audrey Gadzekpo --   T.C. McCaskie --   Karin Barber --   Graham Furniss.   "The 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780253218438  (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005-030257 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literacy--Social aspects--Africa.<br/>Educational anthropology--Africa.<br/>Letter writing--Africa.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa--history-- 1884-1960.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.2244