Reading the Diary of Akinpelu Obisesan in Colonial Africa

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2008
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Adeboye, O.
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African Studies Review
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, a member of the colonial intelligentsia in Ibadan, are analyzed, giving us 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.
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Diary , Colonial , Africa , Elite , Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::History and philosophy subjects::History subjects::History
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Adeboye, O.A. (2008). Reading the Diary of Akinpelu Obisesan in Colonial Africa: African Studies Review, 51 (2), 75-97.
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/african-studies-review/article/reading-the-diary-of-akinpelu-obisesan-in-colonial-africa/40AC8DC6D04EAA7B5EE9DD7A8AD6D1B1
 https://ir.unilag.edu.ng/handle/123456789/9133
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