Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hidden Innovators in AfricaKarin Barber
Part 1. Diaries, Letters, and the Constitution of the Self
1. "My Own Life": A. K. Boakye Yiadom's Autobiography—The Writing and Subjectivity of a Ghanaian Teacher-CatechistStephan F. Miescher
2. "What is our intelligence, our school going and our reading of books without getting money?" Akinpelu Obisesan and His DiaryRuth Watson
3. The Letters of Louisa MvemveCatherine Burns
4. Ekukhanyeni Letter-Writers: A Historical Inquiry into Epistolary Network(s) and Political Imagination in Kwazulu-Natal, South AfricaVukile Khumalo
5. Reasons for Writing: African Working-Class Letter-Writing in Early-Twentieth-Century South AfricaKeith Breckenridge
6. Keeping a Diary of Visions: Lazarus Phelalasekhaya Maphumulo and the Edendale Congregation of AmaNazarethaLiz Gunner
7. Schoolgirl Pregnancies, Letter-Writing, and "Modern" Persons in Late Colonial East AfricaLynn M. Thomas
Part 2. Reading Cultures, Publics, and the Press
8. Entering the Territory of Elites: Literary Activity in Colonial GhanaStephanie Newell
9. The Bantu World and the World of the Book: Reading, Writing, and "Enlightenment"Bhekizizwe Peterson
10. Reading Debating/Debating Reading: The Case of the Lovedale Literary Society, or Why Mandela Quotes ShakespeareIsabel Hofmeyr
11. "The present battle is the brain battle": Writing and Publishing a Kikuyu Newspaper in the Pre–Mau Mau Period in KenyaBodil Folke Frederiksen
12. Public but Private: A Transformational Reading of the Memoirs and Newspaper Writings of Mercy Ffoulkes-CrabbeAudrey Gadzekpo
Part 3. Innovation, Cultural Editing, and the Emergence of New Genres
13. Writing, Reading, and Printing Death: Obituaries and Commemoration in Colonial AsanteT. C. McCaskie
14. Writing, Genre, and a Schoolmaster's Inventions in the Yoruba ProvincesKarin Barber
15. Innovation and Persistence: Literary Circles, New Opportunities, and Continuing Debates in Hausa Literary ProductionGraham Furniss
List of Contributors
Index
