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SUMMARY:MARX IN CAMPUS: PRINT CULTURES\, NATIONALISM AND STUDENTS’ ACTIV
 ISM IN LATE 70’S KENYA - Dr Dan Omanga  (Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:The Anvil was a student newspaper at the University of Nairobi
  launched in the mid 70s after its predecessor The Platform was shut down 
 and its editors suspended from the university. Initially designed to be le
 ss militant\, The Anvil forged a quasi-Marxist identity at a time of both 
 widespread post-colonial disillusionment in Kenya and a largely conformist
  ‘patriotic’ press. In this context\, the paper shows how ‘Marx’ b
 ecame a symbol through which The Anvil\, arguably the most fearless public
 ation of its time\, summoned a politicised ‘student’ public by offerin
 g alternative imaginaries of the nation. Drawing from literature on nation
 alism\, publics and ideas from media theory\, the paper shows how this soc
 ialist lens was routinely used to interpret both local and off-shore event
 s as a tool for proximate political agency by drawing on black cosmopolita
 nisms\, anti-colonial sentiment and Cold War politics . 
LOCATION:Seminar Room S2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambrid
 ge CB3 9DT
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