Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria

by Olufemi Vaughan

Book Overview

In 2003, Olufemi Vaughan received from his ninety-five-year-old father, Abiodun, a trove of more than three thousand letters written by four generations of his family in Ibadan, Nigeria, between 1926 and 1994. The people who wrote these letters had emerged from the religious, social, and educational institutions established by the Church Missionary Society, the preeminent Anglican mission in the Atlantic Nigerian region following the imposition of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299344509
• ISBN13: 9780299344504
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"