Description: During the period of decolonisation in Africa, the CIA covertly subsidised a number of African authors, editors and publishers as part of its anti-communist propaganda strategy. Managed by two front organisations, the Congress of Cultural Freedom and the Farfield Foundation, its Africa programme stretched across the continent. This Element unravels the hidden networks and associations underpinning African literary publishing in the 1960s; it evaluates the success of the CIA in secretly infiltrating and influencing African literary magazines and publishing firms, and examines the extent to which new circuits of cultural and literary power emerged. Based on new archival evidence relating to the Transcription Centre, The Classic and The New African, it includes case studies of Wole Soyinka, Nat Nakasa and Bessie Head, which assess how the authors' careers were affected by these transnational networks and also reveal how they challenged, subverted, and resisted external influence and control.
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EAN: 9781108725545
UPC: 9781108725545
ISBN: 9781108725545
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Book Title: African Literature and the CIA: Networks of Author
Number of Pages: 75 Pages
Publication Name: African Literature and the Cia : Networks of Authorship and Publishing
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.2 in
Subject: Publishing, Communication Studies
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 3.6 Oz
Author: Caroline Davis
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 7 in
Series: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture Ser.
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
