An Anticolonial Development : Race, Schooling, and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century West Africa

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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.