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Letters, kinship, and social mobility in Nigeria /

"In 2003, Olufemi Vaughan received from his ninety-five-year-old father, Abiodun, a trove of more than 3,000 letters written by four generations of his family in Ibadan, Nigeria, between 1926 to 1994. The men and women who wrote these letters had emerged from the religious, social, and educatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vaughan, Olufemi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2023]
Colección:Africa and the diaspora.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword by Adesoji Adelaja
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Brothers' Letters
  • 2. The Matriarchs' Letters
  • 3. Ibadan CMS Men: Kinship and Yorùbá Civic Life
  • 4. The Gladys Aduekẹ Vaughan Files
  • 5. From Freetown with Love
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index