Malay Journalism Before The War

By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

August 2011 WINDOW INTO HISTORY
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This text is extracted by Ooi Kee Beng from an article titled “Malay Journalism in Malaya”, written by Zainal-Abidin B. Ahmad and published in the Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol XIX 1941, pp.244–250. It provides a simple history of Malay journalism, and the condition it was in just before the Second World War came to Malaya.Zainal-Abidin B. Ahmad (1895–1973) a.k.a Za’ba was a writer and teacher. A native of Negeri Sembilan, he was the first Malay...

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Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.

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