West Africa (magazine)
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West Africa was a weekly news magazine which closed in 2005. http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/mediapeople/2005/july/20/mediapple-20-07-2005-001.htm
For 80 years it was considered a major source of information about the region. It began as a source of news about events and issues in the British colonies of West Africa as well as a link between the colonial power and its administrators in the field.
In the 1960s is was the target of a successful takeover bid in the mid-sixties by Cecil Harmsworth King
’s media empire. In 1978 it began to publish poetry and fiction by some of the continent's leading writers. The Literary editor from 1978 was Robert Fraser, followed in 1981 by the Booker-prize winning novelist Ben Okri. A complete run of the magazine is kept in the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London, and in several leading American university and college libraries.
For 80 years it was considered a major source of information about the region. It began as a source of news about events and issues in the British colonies of West Africa as well as a link between the colonial power and its administrators in the field.
In the 1960s is was the target of a successful takeover bid in the mid-sixties by Cecil Harmsworth King
Cecil Harmsworth King
Cecil Harmsworth King was owner of Mirror Group Newspapers, and later a director at the Bank of England .He came on his father's side from a Protestant Irish family, and was brought up in Ireland...
’s media empire. In 1978 it began to publish poetry and fiction by some of the continent's leading writers. The Literary editor from 1978 was Robert Fraser, followed in 1981 by the Booker-prize winning novelist Ben Okri. A complete run of the magazine is kept in the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London, and in several leading American university and college libraries.