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Title: | The dilemma of press freedom in colonial Africa: the West African example |
Author: | Omu, Fred I.A. |
Year: | 1968 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 279-298 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | English-speaking Africa West Africa |
Subject: | freedom of the press |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/179564 |
Abstract: | Striking feature of the African nationalist movement was the use of the right of freedom of the press. Educated Africans, trained in Britain, and as British subjects made use of the free press in the same way as it was handled in the British political tradition. Their newspapers were almost unavoidably highly critical, and colonial administrators sought to control them. The key to the relatively small number of press prosecutions and the seeming reluctance to enforce press legislation is provided by a variety of factors. The situation is illustrated from the history of the early nationalist newspaper press in former British Africa. Notes. |