Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s – 1960s

Fascinating, deftly written, and deeply researched. * GUSTAV RANIS INTERNATIONAL BOOK PRIZE COMMITTEE * This book is one of the best I've ever read about African book history and African literary production. ... It's gripping and wonderful work, and an important contribution to the field. The scholarship is impeccable - rich and detailed ... It wonderfully combines an account of little-known facts about the history of West African newspapers with analysis of the implications, via reflection on coloniality, capitalism, class, and gender. * Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University * This book stands to expand the scope of discussion about neglected aspects of Anglophone literary culture. ... A work of serious, dedicated and painstaking scholarship, written with admirable cultural fluency. ... The argument is compelling, and the scholarly context of the project is rigorously described. On the evidence of its archival interest alone, the manuscript is an excellent achievement, and the way it draws attention to overlooked or neglected areas of creative output is a commendable model of revisionist literary history. * Akin Adesokan, Indiana University * A meticulously reconstructed literary history. ... Newsprint Literature is significant in several ways: first, in terms of its arguments, second, in terms of the history covered, and third, methodologically. * JOURNAL OF THE AFRICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION *