The Flying Newspapermen and the Time-Space of Late Colonial Nigeria

James, Leslie

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“…Some African newspapermen were published in the United States following the tour: material from the Pilot was reproduced 250 times in the American press during the 1940s and 1950s (Hofmeyr and Peterson, 2019: 7). All was not equal in this trans-Atlantic intellectual world, and African and Caribbean reporters ‘benefited from the celebrity and … greater resources of African Americans’ (James, 2018: 591; James, 2016: 49).…”

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African American Journalists in World War II West Africa: The NNPA Commission Tour of 1944–1945

Coates

2021

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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The National Negro Publishers Association (NNPA) Commission to West Africa in 1944–1945 represents a major episode in the history of World War II Africa, as well as in American–West Africa relations. Three African American reporters toured the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Liberia, and the Congo between November 1944 and February 1945, before returning to Washington, DC to report to President Roosevelt. They documented their tour in the pages of the Baltimore Afro-American, the Chicago Defender, and the Norfolk Journal and Guide. Their Americans’ visit had a significant impact in wartime West Africa and was widely documented in the African press. This article examines the NNPA tour geographically, before analyzing American reporters’ interactions with West Africans, and assessing African responses to the tour. Drawing on both African American and West African newspapers, it situates the NNPA tour within the history of World War II West Africa, and in terms of African print culture. It argues that the NNPA tour became the focus of West African hopes for future political, economic, and intellectual relations with African Americans, while revealing how the NNPA reporters engaged African audiences during their tour.

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African American Journalists in World War II West Africa: The NNPA Commission Tour of 1944–1945

Coates

2021

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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“…10The literature emphasising circulation and empire is too numerous to cite here, but almost all the works cited here on print media and empire also emphasise circulation. For the other-worldliness of circulation, see Hofmeyr, “Books in Heaven”; James, “The Flying Newspapermen.”…”

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“…18Leslie James, Karin Barber, Lara Putnam, and Michael Warner, “A Conversation, Revisiting Publics and Counterpublics,” this issue. Also Barber, introduction to Print Culture .…”

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Introduction: Colonial Public Spheres and the Worlds of Print

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2020

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A growing literature explores the varying role of print media in the colonial world and the new types of publics such newspapers and periodicals produced. However, this literature has tended to focus on specific regions, and has often sidestepped the larger question of how to conceptualise the relationship between print media and colonial rule. While some have used the term ‘colonial public sphere’ or ‘colonial publics,’ others have preferred to avoid these terms and instead thought in terms of multiple and overlapping publics. What this literature has shown is that a single analytic model for analysing public spaces of discourse is not usable. In this Introduction to our Special Issue we propose a new framework for studying the publics created through print media in the colonial world. We outline a set of four factors – addressivity, performativity, materiality and periodicity – that can be applied to specific historical case studies. We then explain how the issue as a whole models this methodology as a means to analyse how print media (as one medium within the public sphere) functioned in specific colonial and semi-colonial spaces around the world.

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“…As has been shown in other cases of decolonizing Africa, attending to the 'time-space' that actors occupied, and experiences of temporality more generally, changes the way we can think about historical (im)possibility. 13 This article follows this lead as it traces four 'sketches' from the 1950s, scattered geographically and presented chronologically. and called on 'all citizens of East and Central Africa to enrol' in the League.…”

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FEDERATION, PARTNERSHIP, AND THE CHRONOLOGIES OF SPACE IN 1950s EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA

Milford

2020

Hist. J.

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This article assesses the relationship between the imposed Central African Federation (1953–63) and the ways in which East and Central African thinkers and leaders conveyed and pursued the possibilities of decolonization. Existing literature on federalism in twentieth-century Africa fails to place regional projects in dialogue, studying in isolation East Africa and Central Africa, ‘utopian’ and oppressive regionalisms. But such clear dividing lines were not articulated in the four discursive ‘sketches’ of East and Central Africa that this article brings to light: those of anti-Federation organizations in Nairobi and Ndola in 1952; students at Makerere College (Kampala) in 1953; mobile Malawian activists in regional and pan-African forums around 1955–8; and East African party publicity representatives around 1958–60. At each of these critical moments, thinkers creatively constructed various relationships between geographical space and chronological change, through the lens of a broader, interdependent East and Central Africa, as a means to fend off perceived threats to a precarious advancement towards a democratic future. Attending to the evolution of these ideas shows not only how the Central African Federation placed material constraints on regional solidarity, but how ‘thinking regionally’ could support the case for national borders, even before decolonization.

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The Flying Newspapermen and the Time-Space of Late Colonial Nigeria

Cited by 10 publications

References 28 publications

African American Journalists in World War II West Africa: The NNPA Commission Tour of 1944–1945

African American Journalists in World War II West Africa: The NNPA Commission Tour of 1944–1945

Introduction: Colonial Public Spheres and the Worlds of Print

FEDERATION, PARTNERSHIP, AND THE CHRONOLOGIES OF SPACE IN 1950s EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA

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