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Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville

Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville

Martin, Phyllis
Phyllis, Martin
Anderson, David

Paperback

Series: African Studies, Book 87

African HistorySports General

ISBN10: 0521524466
ISBN13: 9780521524469
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 8 2002
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In this book, Phyllis Martin, a well-known Africanist scholar, opens up a whole new field of African research: the leisure activities of urban Africans. Her comprehensive study, set in colonial Brazzaville and based on a wide variety of written sources and interviews, investigates recreational activities from football and fashion to music, dance and night life. In it, she brings out the ways in which these activities built social networks, humanised daily life and forged new identities, and explains how they ultimately helped to remake older traditions and values with new cultural forms.

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