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

by Barbara Goff

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780932057
• ISBN13: 9781780932057
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.5"