The politics of history in contemporary Africa / Michael Onyebuchi Eze ; with a preface by Frank Ankersmit.

This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The invention of Africa is not merely a residue of Africa's encounter with Europe but a project in continuity in contemporary history of Africa, where history has become a location of struggle and meanin...

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Main Author: Eze, Michael Onyebuchi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
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