Writing the New Nation in a West African Borderland insulating Author(s): Paul V

Author(s): Paul V

as they face the Mad Titan

EAN: 9780736297899

whether the Civil War

This presentation provides the scaffolding and modelling necessary for the development of writing skills

Writing the New Nation in a West African Borderland insulating Author(s): Paul VThis book rethinks the history of decolonisation and new nationhood in the Ghana Togo borderlands, and speaks to an increasingly urgent debate on the production of knowledge about Africa. It does this through the close reading, translation and analysis of a unique primary source a newspaper entitled Able(meaning 'the Key to Freedom'). Able was initiated and sustained by a shoemaker named Holiday V. K. Komedja, and written almost entirely in his mother