Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s – 1960s

Groundbreaking examination of literary production in West African newspapers and local printing presses in the first half of the 20th century. From their inception in the 1880s, African-owned newspapers in 'British West Africa' carried an abundance of creative writing by local authors, largely in English. Yet to date this rich and vast array of work has largely been ignored in critical discussion of African literature and cultural history. This book, for the first time, explores this under-studi