عنوان

Who Writes and Reads African History and Why? Locating African Voices in the Twenty-First Century, From 1960 to the Present

شماره

LA127254

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Who Writes and Reads African History and Why? Locating African Voices in the Twenty-First Century, From 1960 to the Present

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Maxmillian Julius Chuhila

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This paper provides an analysis of recent past and current trends in the production and use of African historiography, viewing the changing dynamics and progress of this discipline as products of the politics of knowledge production in the wider domain of African studies throughout the late post-colonial era. On the one hand, we should not encourage radical separatist manifestos preventing non-African historians from writing about the continent. However, there is an urgent need to review the stark imbalances that have resulted in a steadily decreasing participation of African based scholars in the current production and use of historical knowledge. Despite the growing number of institutions of higher learning, and the increasing percentages of African-born and bred scholars that are employed on the continent, the dependency still remains upon foreign powerhouses to deliver definitive African historical narratives and paradigms from outside Africa: in America, the Caribbean, Europe, and more recently in Asia. Because of this, we continue to consume more knowledge from outside than we can export; thereby we fail to be influencing the world with knowledge about Africa produced from within the continent. It remains difficult for participants from within the African continent to control any of the politicised processes of knowledge production; and unfortunately, there appears little that can be done to reverse this situation at the present time.

تاريخ نشر

2015

توصيف ظاهري

67-83

عنوان

Utafiti

شماره جلد

11/1-2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2683-6408

اصطلاح موضوعی

African historiography

اصطلاح موضوعی

African studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Africanist historians

اصطلاح موضوعی

knowledge production

اصطلاح موضوعی

post-colonial era

اصطلاح موضوعی

Sociology & Anthropology

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Maxmillian Julius Chuhila

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/26836408-0110102005

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y