Your Secret Language'' : Classics in the British Colonies of West Africa

Name: Your Secret Language''
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9781472584090
Price: 7000 KES
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ISBN: 9781472584090

by Barbara Goff

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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

Product Classification: West Africa c 1500 onwards to present day 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 African history Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 Colonialism & imperialism History of education History African history Colonialism and imperialism

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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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