East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2024.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (Online resource (165 pages))
Call Number
PR9379.9.H38 E84353 2024eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.912
Summary
"This book explores J. E. Casely Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound, widely considered the first English-language novel published by an African writer. Drawing material from Casely Hayford's eminent career as a barrister, statesman, and newspaper editor to augment its fictional elements, the book showcases the intellectual versatility of his West African milieu. Moving between London and the Gold Coast, as well as across the past, present, and imagined future of Casely Hayford's Fante civilization, Ethiopia Unbound is a record of how Africans at the turn of the twentieth century made sense of their place in a rapidly changing world"-- Provided by publisher.
