Week 9

Required Readings (on Talis)

Derek Peterson; Steph Newell; Emma Hunter. African Print Cultures. Read Chapter 1. Print Culture in Colonial Africa

Luise White. Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa. Read Chapter 8. Citizenship and Censorship. Politics, Newspapers and a ‘stupifier of several women’ in Kampala in the 1950s

Jonathon Glassman. Sorting out the Tribes: The Creation of Racial Identities in Colonial Zanzibar's Newspaper Wars. The Journal of African History

Primary sources:

Newspaper extracts from Voice of Uganda, Mwigithania (to be provided in the lecture)

Audio-Visual: Have You Seen Drum Recently? - Journeyman Pictures (Since its only available through subscription, only watch the almost 3 minutes trailer)

Further Readings (on Talis)

Seminar Questions

What role did the print media play in creating identities and in Africa’s struggle against colonial role?

How effective are newspapers as a source for writing African history, and the history of those at the margins of the state?

What kinds of historical questions do African newspapers allow historians to answer