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This article describes the shifts and contradictions in British approaches to the control of printmedia in colonial West Africa between the 1920s and 1940s. Well before the Colonial Office’s post-war interventions to create an ‘enlightened and educated’ West African citizenry through mass education, decades of independent newspaper production in the region helped to shape independent and critical readerships. For the British, however, an upsurge in African nationalist journalism in the mid-1930s coincided with a perceived Communist infiltration of ‘British West Africa’ to make censorship and surveillance more palatable than before to colonial officials in London, in spite of the new emphasis on public relations.
Author(s): Newell S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Media History
Year: 2016
Volume: 22
Issue: 1
Pages: 101-112
Online publication date: 14/09/2015
Acceptance date: 05/07/2015
ISSN (print): 1368-8804
ISSN (electronic): 1469-9729
Publisher: Routledge
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2015.1084870
DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2015.1084870
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