Format:
1 Online-Ressource (iv, 239 p)
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Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9781472554482
Content:
Introduction -- Colonial Contradictions -- Classics and Cultural Nationalism -- Twentieth-Century Struggles -- Classics and West African Modernity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Content:
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
Note:
Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780932057
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780934679
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780934662
Additional Edition:
Available in another form
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781472554482
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