Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville

Phyllis Martin

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511584756

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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Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-ix

List of plates
pp x-x

List of maps
pp xi-xi

List of tables
pp xii-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiv

List of abbreviations
pp xv-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-11

1 - An African crossroads, a frontier post and a colonial town, c. 1880–1915
pp 12-44

2 - Taking hold of the town, c. 1915–1960
pp 45-70

3 - The emergence of leisure
pp 71-98

4 - Football is king
pp 99-126

5 - About the town
pp 127-153

6 - Dressing well
pp 154-172

7 - High society
pp 173-197

Conclusion
pp 198-200

Notes
pp 201-247

Bibliography
pp 248-272

Index
pp 273-278

Titles in the series
pp 279-279

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