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Title: | Reading the diary of Akinpelu Obisesan in colonial Africa |
Author: | Adeboye, Olufunke |
Year: | 2008 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review |
Volume: | 51 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 75-97 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | elite Yoruba autobiography self-concept colonial period |
About person: | Akinpelu Obisesan |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/african_studies_review/v051/51.2.adeboye.pdf |
Abstract: | This article considers the private diary not just as a historical source or literary text, but mainly as a symbolic cultural creation with sociological and psychological dimensions. The multiple identities of Akinpelu Obisesan (1887-1963), a member of the colonial intelligentsia in Ibadan, Nigeria, are analysed, giving insight into the transformations in Yoruba masculinity in the colonial period and his own attempts at self-invention. The article also emphasizes the overlap between the personal and the general: between the private and the public domains and how the diarist straddles, and is in turn affected by, sociocultural currents reverberating from these two sites. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |