Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Southern Africa by Jonathan Draper

Semeia Studies

Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Southern Africa

Jonathan Draper

280 pages paperback

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Literacy is essentially about the control of information, memory, and belief, and with colonialism in Southern Africa came the Bible and text-based literacy monitored by missionaries and colonial authorities. Old and new oral traditions, however, ...

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