The Journal of African History

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Book Review

SOCIAL HISTORY AND EVERYDAY LITERACY

Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy And Making the Self. Edited by Karin Barber. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+452. $75 (isbn 978-0-253-34729-9); $29, paperback (isbn 978-0-253-21843-8).

RALPH A. AUSTENa1

a1 University of Chicago

Key Words:

  • Ghana;
  • Kenya;
  • Nigeria;
  • South Africa;
  • literacy;
  • local history;
  • method;
  • social
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