'Your Secret Language' : Classics in the British Colonies of West Africa
by
Barbara Goff
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Classical Diaspora
ISBN-10
1472584090
ISBN-13
9781472584090
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 28th, 2014
Print length
248 Pages
Weight
372 grams
Dimensions
23.30 x 15.80 x 1.40 cms
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An investigation into the teaching of classics in the colonial education of West Africa in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This book is the first to examine the complex and contradictory history of Classics in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria. It investigates how Classical Studies, as an integral part of colonial education, enforced a notion of cultural inferiority on African subjects, but conversely played an enabling role in nationalist expression. The enquiry is structured around three main questions: how Classics contributed to the formation of a new class of Europeanising West Africans in the late 19th century; how Classics was implicated in the ideological struggles of the early twentieth century over the desirability of ''practical'' or ''agricultural'' education; and how the uses of Classics changed in the years leading up to independence.
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