Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Writing for an Addresser Who Re-schools You: The drama and signifying practices of letter writing in an African village

I realized that there was an error in the syntax of the weblink which I provided earlier. I am very sorry about this. Here's the appropriate link:
http://x-pensiverrors.blogspot.com/2012/02/writing-for-addresser-who-re-schools.html

Regards,
Obododimma.


On Sunday, February 26, 2012, Obododimma Oha <obodooha@gmail.com> wrote:
> "But why shouldn't the art of letter writing be sensitive to cultural preferences and expectations? Who says that societies that were assumed not to have developed traditions of writing cannot inject into received written communicative forms their own concerns about what makes communication much-more fulfilling? The village folks, whether educated and half-educated on Western ideas, can localize the Western forms of communication brought back by those they sent out there to be their eyes and ears. "
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> Read the full text of " Writing for an Addresser Who Re-schools You" at:
> http://x-pensiverrors.blogspot.com/2012/02/writing-for-an-addresser-who-re-schools.html
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> -- Obododimma.
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> *Obododimma Oha*
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> (*Associate Professor of Cultural Semiotics & Stylistics*)
> Dept. of English
> University of Ibadan
> Nigeria
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> *Fellow*, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies
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*Obododimma Oha*
http://udude.wordpress.com/

(*Associate Professor of Cultural Semiotics & Stylistics*)
Dept. of English
University of Ibadan
Nigeria

&

*Fellow*, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies
University of Ibadan

Phone: +234 803 333 1330;
            +234 802 220 8008;
            +234 818  639 5001.

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