Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville

by Phyllis Martin

Book Overview

In this book, Phyllis Martin, a well-known Africanist scholar, opens up a whole new field of African research: the leisure activities of urban Africans. Her comprehensive study, set in colonial Brazzaville and based on a wide variety of written sources and interviews, investigates recreational activities from football and fashion to music, dance and night life. In it, she brings out the ways in which these activities built social networks, humanised...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521524466
• ISBN13: 9780521524469
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"