caa a22 4500 388036842 CHVBK 20180307125007.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1161163 doi S0001972000048798 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1161163 Zachernuk P. S. African history and imperial culture in colonial Nigerian schools [Elektronische Daten] [P. S. Zachernuk] Evaluations of colonial education policy tend to treat it as a tool for applying imperial ideology, which—among other things—denied the Africans their past. This study of the debate about history education in southern Nigeria in the 1930s suggests the need to re-evaluate this assessment. While some imperial pronouncements did deny African history, colonial administration also required historical knowledge. Further, many colonial educators thought it proper to provide African students with a sense of their past appropriate to colonial subjects. A few went much further, to actively promote pride in African history. In this ambivalent context African schoolteachers and graduates got on with the task of describing their past, often using colonial educational media, constrained but not silenced by their colonial situation. Recognising the fertile ambivalence of this aspect of imperial culture opens new and more fruitful approaches to colonial intellectual history in general. Copyright © International African Institute 1998 Africa Cambridge University Press 68/4(1998-10), 484-505 0001-9720 68:4<484 1998 68 AFR https://doi.org/10.2307/1161163 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1161163 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Zachernuk P. S. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Africa Cambridge University Press 68/4(1998-10), 484-505 0001-9720 68:4<484 1998 68 AFR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 077229304 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge