African historiographies : what history for which Africa?

Author(s)

• Jewsiewicki, Bogumil
• Newbury, David S.

Bibliographic Information

African historiographies : what history for which Africa?

Bogumil Jewsiewicki, David Newbury, editors

（Sage series on African modernization and development, v. 12）

Sage Publications, c1986

Note

Bibliography: p. 279-316

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The history of Black Africa provides a striking example of how knowledge of the past affects our understanding of the present. The study of African history has largely been conducted by Western scholars or African scholars trained in the West. In recent years, however, the lack of an indegenous historiography has been to some extent corrected. This collection of essays lays the groundwork for 'decolonization' of the history of Black Africa.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Bogumil Jewsiewicki One Historiography or Several? A Requiem for Africanism PART ONE: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF AFRICAN STUDIES African Historians and Africanist Historians - Ndayel E Nziem Knowledge and Perceptions of the African Past - Jan Vansina Epistemological Ethnocentrism in African Studies - Wyatt MacGaffey PART TWO: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ORAL DISCOURSE Profile of a Historiography - Henri Moniot Oral Tradition and Historical Research in Africa The Past in the Present - Jean Bazin Notes on Oral Archaeology Confronting the Unequal Exchange of the Oral and the Written - J P Cretien African History and the Rule of Evidence - David Henige Is Declaring Victory Enough? Afterthoughts on the Historiography of Oral Tradition - Jan Vansina PART THREE: AFRICA FROM THE OUTSIDE: FROM IMPERIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY TO AFRICANIST HISTORIOGRAPHY The Idea of Progress in the Revision of African History, 1960-1970 - Caroline Neale Decolonization in Africa - Michael Twaddle A New British Historiographical Debate? Africanist Historiography in France and Belgium - Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and Bogumil Jewsiewicki Tradition and Trends Africanist Historical Studies in the United States - David Newbury Metamorphosis or Metastasis? The Historiography of South Africa - Shula Marks Recent Developments PART FOUR: AFRICA FROM WITHIN: NATIONAL HISTORIOGRAPHIES Nigerian Academic Historians - E J Alagoa Nigeria - Paul E Lovejoy The Ibadan School and its Critics Marxian Method and Historical Process in Contemporary Ethiopia - Robert S Love Senegalese Historiography - Mohamed Mbodj and Mamadou Diouf Present Practices and Future Perspectives The Development of Sengalese Historiography - Martin A Klein Historical Research in Zaire - Mumbanza Wa Bawele and Sabakinu Kivilu Present Status and Future Perspectives PART FIVE: WHICH WAY OUT? TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPING HISTORIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA The Method of 'Histoire Immediate" - Benoit Verhaegen Its Application to Africa Dar es Salaam and the Postnationalist Historiography of Africa - Henry Slater Populist Political Action - Jean-Francois Bayart Historical Understanding and Political Analysis in Africa Toward a Responsible African Historiography - Christophe Wondji

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Details

• NCID: BA03143405
• ISBN:
  • 0803924984
• LCCN: 85008113
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Beverly Hills
• Pages/Volumes: 320 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DT19
  • DC19 : 960/.072
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Africa -- Historiography -- Addresses, essays, lectures
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00825996