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2022, African Literatures as World Literature (Bloomsbury), eds. Alexander Fyfe and Madhu Krishnan
This chapter presents the formulation of emplaced objectivity as central to the development of an Anglo-Fante textual tradition in the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana). Looking to treatises and essays by J.E. Casely Hayford, John Mensah Sarbah, S.R.B. Attoh Ahuma, and J.W. de Graft Johnson published between the years of 1908 and 1923, it argues for a relationship between facticity and moral character that is cognate with that between the uniqueness and self-systematization of Fante culture. Using the jointly conceived figure of the “literate African,” these writers revise and thus realize the characteristic Victorian and Edwardian confluence of facts and fate, or scientific “rigor” and foreordained progress. By pinpointing what London fails to see about its colonies, the Anglo-Fante intellectuals treated here fulfill a self-proclaimed destiny of situating objectivity as their distinctive contribution to British imperial advancement.
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