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Title

Rethinking African history / edited by Simon McGrath ... [et al.].

Publication

[Edinburgh] : Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• McGrath, Simon A.
• Fyfe, Christopher.
• University of Edinburgh. Centre of African Studies.

Description

xii, 504 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Subject

Africa > History > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• Papers presented at the international African Studies conference held May 1996 by the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh in honour of Christopher Fyfe.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Isibongo / Andrew Walls -- Identity, ideology and the interpretation of Africa / Simon McGrath -- Race, empire and decolonization in Africa / Christopher Fyfe -- Christopher Fyfe, a comment / Saul Dubow -- Decolonisation and the birth of neocolonialism / J.F. Ade Ajayi -- African history : a view from behind the Kremlin wall / Apollon Davidson and Irina Filatova -- Approaches to the presentation of African history in German textbooks after the Second World War : old and new / Jan-Georg Deutsch -- Rewriting South African history, or the hunt for Hintsa's head / Shula Marks -- South Africa doing African history : "bone narratives" from Namibia, 1915-1920s / Patricia Hayes -- From hewers of wood to knowledge workers : African education in twentieth century South Africa / Simon McGrath -- The changing dimensions of African history : reappropriating the diaspora / Robin Law and Paul Lovejoy -- The Krio of Sierra Leone : perspectives and West African historiography / Akintola J.G. Wyse --
• Ifo and Oyo crowns in colonial and post-colonial Nigerian politics / Olufemi Vaughan -- W.E.G. (Kobina) Sekyi's theory of history, social, political and economic development, 1910-54 / Jabez Ayo Langley -- Africa in the age of extremes : the irrelevance of African history / Terence Ranger -- Coping with evidence in the study of the African past / David Henige -- Yorùbá popular theatre as a historical object / Karin Barber -- Social exclusion and the social history of disease : the impact of HIV/AIDS and the changing concept of the family in northwestern Tanzania / Frederick Kaijage -- Historical anthropology and anthropological history : rethinking the social production of an African past / Mario I Aguilar -- Rethinking "the African voice" : language interpretation in the Native Commissioner's and Magistrate's Courts, Melsetter District, Southern Rhodesia, 1896-1914 / Diana Jeater -- Rethinking the history of Kenya's informal economy against the current challenge to industry in Africa / Kenneth King -- "A plantation of religion" and the enterprise culture in Africa : history, ex-slaves and religious inevitability / Lamin Sanneh -- Re-membering the body : discovering history as a healing art / T. Jack Thompson -- Meditations among the tombs : changing patterns of identity in Freetown, Sierra Leone / Andrew Walls.

ISBN

0952791714

LCCN

gb^97077939^

OCLC

• 38069092
• SCSB-10736727

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library