'Your secret language' : classics in the British colonies of West Africa /: classics in the British colonies of West Africa. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Barbara Goff.
• Other Names: Goff, Barbara E
• Contents: Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Classical reception studies and postcolonial classics; Empire; Numbers; 1 Colonial Contradictions; The Freetown experiment; The multiple significances of Samuel Ajayi Crowther; African responses to missionary classical education; 2 Classics and Cultural Nationalism; James Africanus Beale Horton; Edward Wilmot Blyden; Kobina Sekyi, the Anglo-Fanti; Ethiopia Unbound: Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford; 3 Twentieth-Century Struggles; The educated African; 'Classics' versus 'Agriculture' The Phelps-Stokes Commission: classics as educational slaveryResponses in the schools; 4 Classics and West African Modernity; Technologies of the self; Kossoh Town Boy: Latin and Greek, Father and Nation; Joe Appiah and the ghost; Classics and 'Western' culture; Classics in the new universities; To have loved and lost: 'The Devil at Yolahun Bridge'; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 370.96603; History -- Africa -- West; EDUCATION -- Comparative; EDUCATION -- History; History -- Ancient -- General; Education -- History; Colonialism & imperialism; Classical education -- Africa, West; Education -- Africa, West -- Colonial influence; Africa, West -- Civilization -- Foreign influences; Africa, West -- Civilization -- 19th century; Africa, West -- Civilization -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781780934679; 9781780934662; 1780934661; 9781299051645; 1299051642
• Related ISBNs: 178093467X; 9781780932057; 1780932057
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.