African Literature in Transition

Table of Contents

• Introduction: print cultures and African Literature Stephanie Newell and Karin Barber
• Part I. Producing Print:
• 1. The press at work: five snapshots
• 1.1 The press at work: Gakaara wa Wanjaũ Press Simon Gikandi
• 1.2 Of rickety old printpresses in ramshackle printrooms and the stories they told: the African press in colonial Kenya 1920–1960s Phoebe Musandu
• 1.3 'Where money goes before, all ways do lie open': on some practicalities of the newspaper business in 1920s and 1930s Lagos Katharina A. Oke
• 1.4 Polyglossia and loanwords in the Tanganyikan press, 1916–1961 James R. Brennan
• 1.5 The West African Pilot and the creation of an anti-colonial readership Ngozi Edeagu
• 2. Expansive languages in nineteenth-century Central Africa: missionary dictionaries between command and dialogue Harri Englund
• 3. Print cultures and printing diasporas: Gandhi, Dube and white printworkers in Durban Isabel Hofmeyr
• 4. George McCall Theal's urge to publish and his collaborative printing process, 1862–1882 Sam Naidu
• 5. A tale of two print cultures: Hausa texts in Ajami and Roman script Graham Furniss
• 6. Still images, moving images: movie posters and film spectatorship in colonial West Africa Odile Goerg
• Part II. Readers and Audiences:
• 7. Black South African intellectuals and the question of colonial modernity Khwezi Mkhize
• 8. 'How to cultivate a love for reading': literacy, madness, and African selfhood in the Sierra Leone weekly news Thomas Keegan
• 9. Print culture and new fictional imagination in colonial Egypt Lucie Ryzova
• 10. A century of readers and readings: Abantu Abamnyama, 1922–2022 Hlonipha Mokoena
• Part III. New Genres: Form, Local Aesthetics and Literary Creativity in Periodicals:
• 11. Linguistic cohabitation and the equivalences of print Karin Barber
• 12. Autoethnographic expression and the politics of educational adaptation: the Nigerian teacher and Nigeria magazines Terri Ochiagha
• 13. Satirical Street literature: city archiving and its afterlives Corinne Sandwith
• 14. Pioneers of the popular: literary experimentation in Swahili press writings in Tanganyika, 1930s–50s Maria Suriano
• 15. Orthographic arguments: language debates in Swati newspapers of the 1950s and 1960s Joel Cabrita and Thato Sukati
• 16. 'Usefully unofficial' reading: Onitsha market literature and Anglophone print cultures in colonial Nigeria Stephanie Newell
• Part IV. Worlds of Print:
• 17. Double-sided Print: silent and communal reading during the rise of Islamic print in East Africa, c. 1880–1940 Anne K. Bang
• 18. Between the railway and the minaret: transregional Swahili Muslim booklets and transition in East African print culture, 1930–1960 Annachiara Raia
• 19. Making audiences: Gäbrä-Əgziabher Gila-Maryam as a forerunner of Ethiopian print culture, 1895–1914 Sara Marzagora
• 20. Print and the question of literature in Islamic West Africa Jeremy Dell
• 21. Print networks in the Black Atlantic world, c. 1920–1960 Leslie James and Myles Osborne
• 22. 'A curious creature from the market': world literature and the 'Complete Gentleman' stories Tobias Warner.
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