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Colonial Lessons: Africans' Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918-1940 (Social History of Africa) - Softcover

Summers, Carol L.

 
9780852559529: Colonial Lessons: Africans' Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918-1940 (Social History of Africa)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0852559526 ISBN 13: 9780852559529
Publisher: James Currey Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

This work shows how mission-educated Africans negotiated new identities for themselves and their communities within the confines of segregation. It examines strikes by students and parents, struggles over curricula, and efforts of African teachers to improve their professional status.

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Review

Summers presents the material in her book with an admirable acumen. ...scholars interested in education, religion and the colonial state will find much in this book. - Matthew Engelke in AFRICAN HISTORY This is a worthwhile book, which fulfils an important historical need to revise the role of the early African intelligentsia. On the whole the author's case is convincing: elite educated middlemen were far from colonial puppets; they built African status; shaped policy debates; challenged white and black people alike; and laid foundations for the subsequent emergence of the mass nationalist parties. - John Louis Moore in ARAS Australia

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Publisher
James Currey Ltd
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0852559526
ISBN 13 
9780852559529
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
212