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

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Goff, Goff Barbara
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.2014
• EAN: 9781472584090
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-8409-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Classical Diaspora; Classical Diaspora
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / Africa / West, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Education, Colonialism and imperialism, African History, West Africa