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Classics in the British Colonies of West Africa

Series: Classical Diaspora;

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Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Date of Publication 28 February 2013
Number of Volumes Hardback

ISBN 9781780932057
Binding Hardback
No. of pages248 pages
Size 234x156 mm
Weight 520 g
Language English

Categories

Literature in general, reference works History of literature Ancient History (until the fall of the Roman Empire) The Enlightenment, Romanticism, The Realist Age History of Africa Political systems and theories Public education Literature in general, reference works (charity campaign) History of literature (charity campaign) Ancient History (until the fall of the Roman Empire) (charity campaign) The Enlightenment, Romanticism, The Realist Age (charity campaign) History of Africa (charity campaign) Political systems and theories (charity campaign) Public education (charity campaign)

Short description:

An investigation into the teaching of classics in the colonial education of West Africa in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Long description:

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.