Past and presentism: the 'precolonial' and the foreshortening of African history

This article considers the marginalization of precolonial history from mainstream Africanist scholarship in recent decades, and argues that this can be understood in the context of a scholarly culture that attributes an exaggerated significance to the history of the twentieth century. The article hi...

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Egile nagusia: Reid, R
Formatua: Journal article
Hizkuntza:English
Argitaratua: Cambridge University Press 2011