An Anticolonial Development by Elisa Prosperetti

An Anticolonial Development by Elisa Prosperetti

In what measure could education be an agent of African freedom? Combining histories of race, economics, and education, Elisa Prosperetti examines this question in two West African contexts, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, from the 1890s to the 1980s. She argues that a Black Atlantic perspective changes how we see decolonization and development in West Africa, by revealing schooling's essential role in aspirations of African emancipation. Rejecting colonial exploitation of the African body, proponents of anticolonial development instead claimed the mind as the site of economic productivity for African people. An Anticolonial Development shows how, in the middle of the twentieth century, Africans proposed an original understanding of development that fused antiracism to economic theory, and human dignity to material productivity.

Elisa Prosperetti is Assistant Professor of History at the National Institute of Education, part of the Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore.

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ISBN 13	9781009618625
ISBN 10	1009618628
Title	An Anticolonial Development
Author	Elisa Prosperetti
Series	African Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2026-05-31
Number of pages	292
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