Papers presented at the 2013 meeting of the African Print Cultures Network, held July 2013 at the University of Birmingham, England.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print culture in colonial Africa / Derek R. Peterson and Emma Hunter -- Transatlantic passages : black identity construction in West African and West Indian newspapers, 1935-1950 / Leslie James -- Creole pioneers in the Nigerian provincial press / David Pratten -- The sociability of print : 1920s and 1930s Lagos newspaper travel writing / Rebecca Jones -- Colonial modernity and tradition : Herbert Macaulay, the newspaper press, and the (re)production of engaged publics in colonial Lagos / Wale Adebanwi -- Experiments with genre in Yoruba newspapers of the 1920s / Karin Barber -- Everyday poetry from Tanzania : microcosm of the newspaper genre / Kelly Askew -- Private entertainment magazines and popular literature production in socialist Tanzania / Uta Reuster-Jahn -- "True to life" : illuminating the processes and modes of Yoruba photoplays / Olubukola A. Gbadegesin -- Komkya and the convening of a Chagga public, 1953-1961 / Emma Hunter -- Making constituency in the province : the Osumare Egba (1935-1937) and the agenda of Ab'okuta modernization / Oluwatoyin Babatunde Oduntan -- "I will decide who will speak" : street parliaments and the newspaper ecology in Eldoret's Kamukunji / Duncan Omanga -- The afterlife of words : Magema Fuze, bilingual print journalism, and the making of a self-archive / Hlonipha Mokoena -- From corpse to corpus : the printing of death in colonial West Africa / Stephanie Newell -- Afterword / Stephanie Newell.