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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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The 'invention' of Africa: contested terrains
- Post-colonial displacements
- Africanism: a history of histories
- Beyond a history by analogy
- Cult of personalities and politics of domination
- Towards an African renaissance.