Section outline

  • Lecture obligatoire: Newell Stephanie, “Graphic Fictions: Reader Research and the Making of a Comic Strip in 1950s ‘British West Africa.’” Research in African Literatures, 2020.

    Lectures complémentaires: 

    • Brisset-Foucault Florence, « Une critique bien élevée : La presse “pro-régime” dans l'Ouganda de Yoweri Museveni ». Sociétés contemporaines, 2022/1 N° 125, 2022. p.61-89.
    • Roberts George, 2023. “The Rise and Fall of a Swahili Tabloid in Socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo Newspaper, 1959–76.” Journal of Eastern African Studies 17 (1–2): 1–21.
    • Tcheuyap, Alexie.« Écrire masqué. Des pseudonymes dans la presse camerounaise ». Politique africaine, 2014/4 N° 136, 2014. p.135-156.
    • James Currey (2021) The South African Special Branch v The New African 1962–64: censorship by harassment of a radical journal, Social Dynamics, 47:2, 288-296.

    • Brisset-Foucault, Florence.« Quel “autre journalisme” en Afrique ? La production de modèles médiatiques africains au forum social mondial de Nairobi ». Réseaux,2009/5 n° 157-158, 2009. p.125-156.
    • Robert Darnton, De la Censure, Paris, Flammarion, 2014. 
    • Isabel Hofmeyr, Preben Kaarsholm, and Bodil Folke Frederiksen, ‘Introduction: Print Cultures, Nationalism and Publics of the Indian Ocean’, Africa 81, no. 1 (2011): 1–22

    • Bodil Folke Frederiksen, (2020). Censorship as Negotiation: The State and Non-European Newspapers in Kenya, 1930-54. Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, 44(2), 391 - 411.
    • Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye, 2013, Le fil de l’écrit. Une anthropologie de l’alphabétisation au Mali, ENS-Editions, Lyon.
    • Newell Stephanie, “Local Authors, Ephemeral Texts: Anglo-Scribes and Anglo-Literates in Early West African Newspapers.” In Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture, ed. Grace Musila, London and NY: Routledge, 2022, pp. 56–73.
    • African Print Cultures, eds. Derek Peterson et al., Ann Arbor: Michigan UP, 2016. 
    • Emma Hunter and Leslie James, “Introduction: Colonial Public Spheres and the Worlds of Print”, Itinerario 44, no. 2 (2020), 227-242. 
    • Karin Barber, ed., Africa’s Hidden Histories. Everyday Literacy and Making the Self, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2006. 

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