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Mediating the News in Colonial Nigeria : Students, Newspapers and "Non-Disruptive" Modes of Protest

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Edeagu, Ngozi:
Mediating the News in Colonial Nigeria : Students, Newspapers and "Non-Disruptive" Modes of Protest.
2021
Veranstaltung: Rethinking the Politics and Practices of Print in Comparative Colonial Perspective (Virtual) , January 8-9, 2021 , Edinburgh Centre for Global History, University of Edinburgh.
(Veranstaltungsbeitrag: Workshop , Paper )

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Writing Back to Empire: Newspaper, Non-Elites and Decolonisation in the Global Public Sphere 1937-1957
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Projektfinanzierung: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst

Abstract

By 1950, only 6 percent of the Nigerian population was literate in English. Consequently, in the historiographical debates on intermediaries who bridged the linguistic and cultural gaps in colonial Nigeria, clerks or interpreters take centre stage. Their dominance downplays alternative figures also positioned to articulate the voices of the non- and semi-literate in English people in the colonial era—secondary school students. In particular, illiterate women depended on them to navigate the formal requirements of petition writing (Alozie 2019, 349-50). Nonetheless, these students navigated another literate arena— English language newspapers. In general, newspapers in the period made “commoners actors in the theatre of politics and enlarged the demography of politics” (Taylor 1997, 5). By virtue of their access to newspapers in school reading rooms and/or libraries, students were also immersed in wider decolonization processes unfolding from the 1930s. This paper thus aims to locate the voices of the non- and semi-literate in newspapers in colonial Nigeria through the lens of student intermediaries. In addition, it aims to uncover how students amplified the voices those protesting various exploitative aspects of colonialism. Using the West African Pilot newspaper as a case study, I explore what we do and can know about student mediation in the colonial era and help insert unrepresented voices into the narrative on newspapers.

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Publikationsform: Veranstaltungsbeitrag (Paper)
Begutachteter Beitrag: Nein
Keywords: newspaper; literacy; colonialism; West African Pilot; Nigeria; student
Institutionen der Universität: Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Professur Geschichte Afrikas
Graduierteneinrichtungen > BIGSAS
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Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
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Titel an der UBT entstanden: Ja
Themengebiete aus DDC: 000 Informatik,Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke > 070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen
900 Geschichte und Geografie > 900 Geschichte
900 Geschichte und Geografie > 960 Geschichte Afrikas
900 Geschichte und Geografie > 970 Geschichte Nordamerikas
Eingestellt am: 20 Dec 2022 09:44
Letzte Änderung: 20 Dec 2022 09:44
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/73072