65 / 5,000 Translation results The Yoruba print culture: networks and modernities, 1852- present Universiteit Gent
The print culture that Europe introduced to the world allowed other cultures to show their own modernity. Yoruba people use the words "olaju" (opening of the eye) and "ilosiwaju" (progress) to describe ideas around modernity. Both words were already in use before the advent of the printing press in Africa, so the idea of modernity for the Yoruba people did not arise from the project of colonial modernity. No research has yet been done on how ...