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Title: | Newspapers, new spaces, new writers: the First World War and print culture in colonial Ghana |
Author: | Newell, Stephanie |
Year: | 2009 |
Periodical: | Research in African Literatures |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 1-15 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ghana Cameroon |
Subjects: | journalism office workers race relations colonial period World War I |
About person: | John G. Mullen |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/research_in_african_literatures/v040/40.2.newell.pdf |
Abstract: | The article focuses on a memoir, 'My Experience in Cameroons during the War', by J.G. Mullen, published in the 'Gold Coast Leader' between 1916 and 1918. This memoir is unique for its status as a first-person narrative by an ordinary African clerk. Mullen's narrative provides many insights into the educated, non-elite man's imperial identity in the early twentieth century. Through it, it is possible to discover precisely how a Ghanaian 'native clerk' articulated his imperial subjectivity, his race-consciousness, his perception of social class in the colonies, his 'patriotism', and his need for existential (if not political) freedoms during the war. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |