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Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2013]

1 online resource (266 pages)

ISBN 9780821444498 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780821420324

aNew African histories series

Print version: Newell, Stephanie. Power to name : a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2013] ix, 255 pages New African histories series ISBN 9780821420324

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: anonymity, pseudonymity, and the question of agency in colonial West African newspapers -- Part 1. Newspapers in colonial West Africa -- The "fourth and only estate" : defining a public sphere in colonial West Africa -- Articulating empire: newspaper networks in colonial West Africa -- Part 2. Case studies from the Colonial Office -- The view from afar : the Colonial Office, imperial government, and pseudonymous African journalism -- Part 3. Case studies from West African newspapers -- Trickster tactics and the question of authorship in newspaper folktales -- Printing women : the gendering of literacy -- Nominal ladies and "real" women writers : female pseudonyms and the problem of authorial identity in the cases of "Rosa" and "Marjorie Mensah" -- Conclusion. "New visibilities" : African print subjects and the birth of the (postcolonial) author -- Appendix: I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson in court.

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