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Newspapers, new spaces, new writers: the First World War and print culture in colonial Ghana

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posted on 2023-06-08, 08:05 authored by Stephanie Newell
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. Mullens narrative furnishes us with many insights into the educated, non-elite mans imperial identity in the early twentieth century. Through it, we can 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.

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  • Published

Journal

Research in African Literatures

ISSN

0034-5210

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Issue

2

Volume

40

Page range

1-15

Pages

15.0

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  • English Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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