Africa's hidden histories : everyday literacy and making the self /
edited by Karin Barber.
- Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2006.
- x, 451 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- African expressive cultures .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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 books without getting money?" : Akinpelu Obisesan and his diary / The letters of Louisa Mvemve / Ekukhanyeni letter-writers : a historical inquiry into epistolary network(s) and political imagination in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa / Reasons for writing : African working-class letter-writing in early-twentieth-century South Africa / Keeping a diary of visions : Lazarus Phelalasekhaya Maphumulo and the Edendale congregation of AmaNazaretha / Schoolgirl pregnancies, letter-writing, and "modern" persons in late colonial East Africa / Entering the territory of elites : literary activity in colonial Ghana / The Bantu world and the world of the book : reading, writing, and "enlightenment" / Reading debating/debating reading : the case of the Lovedale Literary Society, or why Mandela quotes Shakespeare / present battle is the brain battle" : writing and publishing a Kikuyu newspaper in the pre-Mau Mau period in Kenya / Public but private : a transformational reading of the memoirs and newspaper writings of Mercy Ffoulkes-Crabbe / Writing, reading, and printing death : obituaries and commemoration in Asante / Writing, genre, and a schoolmaster's inventions in the Yoruba provinces / Innovation and persistence : literary circles, new opportunities, and continuing debates in Hausa literary production / Stephan F. Miescher -- Ruth Watson -- Catherine Burns -- Vukile 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