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This project examines the impact of print culture on Yoruba modernity over 150 years, highlighting how local and transcontinental networks influenced Nigerian history. It aims to preserve and analyze rare print materials to articulate a robust narrative of Yoruba literary history.
The print culture that Europe introduced to the world allowed other cultures to showcase their own modernity.
Yoruba people use the words “olaju” (opening of the eye) and “ilosiwaju” (progress) to describe ideas around modernity.
Both words have been in use before the arrival of the printing press in Africa, so therefore the idea of modernity for the Yoruba people did not emanate from the project of colonial modernity.
There is no study yet that examined how networks of people with shared and so…
UNIVERSITEIT GENT
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Netherlands, Amsterdam
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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