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

Name: Your Secret Language''
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9781780932057
Price: 30550 KES
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ISBN: 9781780932057

by Barbara Goff

Book Details

Format Hardback

Book Series Classical Diaspora

ISBN-10 1780932057

ISBN-13 9781780932057

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint Bloomsbury Academic

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 28th, 2013

Print length 248 Pages

Weight 522 grams

Dimensions 24.10 x 17.90 x 1.80 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 Colonialism & imperialism 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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