The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland : Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914-2014
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 24054215
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/CBO9781139870573
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107074637
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book is grounded in more than a decade of research on the Ewe-speaking Ghana-Togo border region. In addition to conducting oral history interviews, and collecting Ewe-language songs, chants, newspapers and pamphlets, Skinner drew upon public records in national archives of Britain, France, Ghana and Togo, and other collections held by churches, libraries and individuals. These sources, and their interpretation in the light of diverse fields of secondary literature (particularly the sociology of education, and anthropological studies of African print cultures) permitted an original interpretation of political mobilisations in the region, significantly revising the earlier historiography.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Chapter 3 of this book summarises adult educational initiatives that the author evaluated in a 2007 article. Chapter 4 draws in part on an article published in Journal of African History (2007). Chapters 5, 6 and 7 contain small amounts of material published in a 2010 article. In all of these instances, the book substantially supplements, extends, develops, or adds detail to material published before 2014, and reframes it within the different geographical scope and overarching argument of the present book.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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