The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison

The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 517
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ISBN-10 : 9789047406341
ISBN-13 : 9047406346
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Book Synopsis The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison by : Doortmont

Download or read book The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison written by Doortmont and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1920s the Gold Coast businessman Charles Francis Hutchison published the first volume of his book titled The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities. The book contains 162 biographical sketches of Ghanaians that were important in business, in society and the church, in government, and in (nationalist) politics, both from Hutchison’s own time and from the nineteenth century. The text of the biographies is in blank verse, and portrait photographs accompany most sketches. Additional photographs of houses and special events, and added biographical information in the form of lists of famous deceased people complete the book. The Pen-Pictures is a well-known source for the history of the Gold Coast, modern Ghana, cited and quoted by both professional historians and interested lay-people. In effect, The Pen-Pictures is an important socio-historical document. The format, the style of presentation, the intimacy of many of the life histories, the overview offered of non-European Gold Coast society in the 1920s, they all allow for multiple analyses by historians, sociologists, social anthropologists and scholars of language and literature. This annotated edition is the first reprint of the book and offers a lively and both historically and literarily interesting text about an important phase in Ghanaian history. The added introduction and annotation offer a context hitherto unavailable to the scholar and general reader.


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