An anticolonial development : race, schooling, and emancipation in twentieth-century West Africa / Elisa Prosperetti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prosperetti, Elisa, Author.

Series:

African studies series

African studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Social aspects--Africa, West--History.

Education.

Public schools--Africa, West--History.

Public schools.

Democracy and education--Africa, West--History.

Democracy and education.

Anti-imperialist movements--Africa, West--History.

Anti-imperialist movements.

Decolonization--Africa, West--History.

Decolonization.

Postcolonialism--Africa, West.

Postcolonialism.

Decolonization--Africa, West.

Educational sociology--Africa, West.

Educational sociology.

Economic development--Effect of education on--Africa, West--History--20th century.

Economic development.

Educational equalization--Africa, West--History--20th century.

Educational equalization.

Intellectual freedom--Africa, West--History--20th century.

Intellectual freedom.

Economic development--Effect of education on--History.

Educational equalization--History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

illustration

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"In what measure could education be an agent of African freedom? Combining histories of race, economics, and education, this study offers a fresh approach to the study of development and decolonization in West Africa. Elisa Prosperetti demonstrates that freedom from colonial rule was inseparable from the freedom to go to school"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Moumouni on the Seine

"Improvement of the highest order" : race, development, and education in colonial West Africa (1880s-1930s)

"The duty of colonized people" : forging an anticolonial politics of West African emancipation (1945-1960)

"Africa's most urgent and vital need" : human capital theory, UNESCO, and the ascendance of anticolonial development (1958-1961)

"The most important limiting factor" : the paradox of the postcolonial teacher (1957-1980s)

"Let me receive all that I ask" : the precarity of school-going in postcolonial West Africa (1950s-1970s)

"The African record is unique" : the decline of public schooling and the rise of neoliberalism (1966-1981)

Conclusion. Stooped/upright.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Prosperetti, Elisa Anticolonial development

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781009618625

1009618628

9781009618588

100961858X

OCLC:

1563991927

Publisher Number:

CIPO000359523