Ethiopia Unbound

A Critical Edition

by J. E. Casely Hayford

Edited by Jeanne-Marie Jackson and Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang

Published by: Michigan State University Press

Imprint: Michigan State University Press

Publishing Date: 2024-08-01

198 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in

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  • 9781611864960
  • Published: August 2024

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This book shines a new light on J. E. Casely Hayford’s Ethiopia Unbound, widely considered the first English-language novel published by an African writer. Casely Hayford drew material from his eminent career as a barrister, statesman, and newspaper editor to augment the book’s fictional elements, showcasing the tremendous intellectual versatility of West Africa. Moving between London and the Gold Coast, as well as across the past, present, and imagined future of Casely Hayford’s Fante civilization, Ethiopia Unbound is an essential record of how Africans at the turn of the twentieth century made sense of their place in a rapidly changing world.

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