Drawing on a broader research project on journals and African anti-colonialism from the 1940s to the 1970s, this paper seeks to gender the question of the circulation of print material through a focus on women's reading, writing and editorial practices in Conakry in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Attending to women's editorial, literary and political practices during years of internationalist pan-Africanism can shed crucial light on the forms of 'community' that print cultures engendered. Drawing on a broader research project on journals and African anti-colonialism, this paper seeks to gender the question of the circulation of print material in the years around African decolonisation. I focus on Portuguese-speaking women involved in writing and editorial work in Conakry in the 1960s and 1970s, such as Dulce Almada, an editor of the journal Libertação and Amélia Araújo, a producer and a broadcaster on Rádio Libertação. In this paper, I discuss questions of historiography, archiving and the (non-representative) significance of women's literary writing in these contexts.