Colonial Lessons: Africans' Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918-1940 (Social History of Africa) - Softcover

Summers, L.Carol

 
9780852559529: Colonial Lessons: Africans' Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918-1940 (Social History of Africa)

Synopsis

Reveals how the African intelligentsia shaped their own lives under colonial rule. This work shows how mission-educated Africans negotiated new identities for themselves and their communities within the confines of segregation. It examines strikes by students and parents, struggles over curricula, and efforts ofAfrican teachers to improve their professional status. North America: Heinemann

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Scholars interested in education, religion and the colonial state will find much in this book. --African History

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This work shows how mission-educated Africans negotiated new identities for themselves and their communities within the confines of segregation. It examines strikes by students and parents, struggles over curricula, and efforts of African teachers to improve their professional status.

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