'Your Secret Language': Classics In The British Colonies Of West Africa (Classical Diaspora) - Softcover

Goff, Barbara

 
9781472584090: 'Your Secret Language': Classics In The British Colonies Of West Africa (Classical Diaspora)
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ISBN 10: 1472584090 ISBN 13: 9781472584090
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Barbara Goff is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading, UK.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1472584090
ISBN 13 
9781472584090
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
248

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