This book documents an important, but understudied, sector of a West African working class. The coal miners of the Enugu Government colliery became nationalist icons for many Nigerians following a colonial government massacre of striking miners in 1949. Carolyn Brown argues that the experiences of these miners deserve to be studied as something more than appendages to the political history of the birth of the Nigerian nation. Through the lens of gender, race, and class, she documents the tumultuous history of the Enugu miners and reveals how they developed characteristics of self-awareness and class-consciousness similar to those of their Western counterparts in British or North American mines.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Heinemann USA
ISBN-13
9780325070063
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95933919
Product Key Features
Book Title
We Are All Slaves
Author
Brown
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social Sciences
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Item Weight
583g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Brown
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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