Pressing interests : the agenda and influence of a colonial East African newspaper sector / Phoebe Musandu.
"During the first six decades of the twentieth century, when the majority of present-day Kenya was under the control of the British Empire, many secular newspapers emerged as the products of tensions between Asian and European immigrants, the British administration, and the African petite bourg...
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Montreal ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Newspapers - Raison d'Être: "The Appetite Grows by What It Feeds On"
- Of Discontent, Contractual Wars, and the Birthing of Secular Newspapers in British East Africa, 1899-1905
- "Political Apathy Is Commercial Atrophy": The East African Standard and the Interests of the European Press, 1904-1963
- "The Position of the Proverbial Sandwich": Asian Newspapers in British East Africa, 1920s-1960s
- "The Paper Is Their Meeting Ground": African Newspapers, 1920s-1952
- Leviathan's Cranky Press: Government Newspapers, 1920-1962.