African Literature in Transition: Volume 3

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 Wanjau 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: Gaebrae-?gziabher 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.