TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barber, Karin.
TI  - Africa's hidden histories: everyday literacy and making the self 
SN  - 9780253218438
U1  - 302.2244 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Bloomington, IN
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Africa
KW  - Educational anthropology
KW  - Letter writing
KW  - history
KW  -  1884-1960
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index;  "My own life" : A.K. Boakye Yiadom's autobiography - the writing and subjectivity of a Ghanaian teacher-catechist;  Stephan F. Miescher --;  "What is our intelligence, our school going and our reading of bo oks without getting money?" : Akinpelu Obisesan and his diary;  Ruth Watson --;  The letters of Louisa Mvemve;  Catherine Burns --;  E kukhanyeni letter-writers : a historical inquiry into epistolary networ k(s) and political imagination in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa;  Vuki le Khumalo --;  Reasons for writing : African working-class letter-wri ting in early-twentieth-century South Africa;  Keith Breckenridge --;  Keeping a diary of visions : Lazarus Phelalasekhaya Maphumulo and t he Edendale congregation of AmaNazaretha;  Liz Gunner --;  Schoolgi rl pregnancies, letter-writing, and "modern" persons in late colonial E ast Africa;  Lynn M. Thomas --;  Entering the territory of elites : literary activity in colonial Ghana;  Stephanie Newell --;  The Ba ntu world and the world of the book : reading, writing, and "enlightenm ent";  Bhekizizwe Peterson --;  Reading debating/debating reading : the case of the Lovedale Literary Society, or why Mandela quotes Shake speare;  Isabel Hofmeyr --;  "The;  present battle is the brain ba ttle" : writing and publishing a Kikuyu newspaper in the pre-Mau Mau pe riod in Kenya;  Bodil Folke Frederiksen --;  Public but private : a transformational reading of the memoirs and newspaper writings of Merc y Ffoulkes-Crabbe;  Audrey Gadzekpo --;  Writing, reading, and prin ting death : obituaries and commemoration in Asante;  T.C. McCaskie --;  Writing, genre, and a schoolmaster's inventions in the Yoruba pro vinces;  Karin Barber --;  Innovation and persistence : literary ci rcles, new opportunities, and continuing debates in Hausa literary prod uction;  Graham Furniss
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