Your Secret Language by Barbara Goff PAPERBACK 9781472584090

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Your Secret Language\nby Barbara Goff\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Barbara Goff\nTitle: Your Secret Language\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Colonialism and imperialism\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\nPublication year: 2014\nISBN-13: 9781472584090\nISBN-10: 1472584090\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis 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 mai.