Africanizing knowledge : African studies across the disciplines /: African studies across the disciplines. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings, editors.
• Other Names: Falola, Toyin; Jennings, Christian
• Contents: From African historiographies to an African philosophy of history / E.S. Atieno-Odhiambo -- Ancestral slaves and diasporic tourists: retelling history by reversing movement in a counternationalist Vodun festival from Benin / Peter Sutherland -- Called to hear the word of God: Musa Kongola's autobiography / Gregory H. Maddox -- "What have we, Jo-Ugenya, not done? We have even killed an Arab/Swahili hermaphrodite": constructing a history of the Jo-Ugenya-Arab/Swahili war by means of a saying / Meshack Owino -- Lexical borrowings as pathways to Senegal's past and present / Fallou Ngom -- Reconstructing modern African business history / Alusine Jalloh. African art: new genres and transformational philosophies / Christopher Adejumo -- The role of traditional music in the writing of cultural history: the case of the Abaluyia of Western Kenya / Maurice Amutabi -- The global history of African music: the Kenyan song "Malaika" / Ian Eagleson -- Telling African's past in literature: Whose story is it anyway? / Oyekan Owomoyela -- Representation of a colonial reality: World War I in La victoire en chantant and Amhoullel, l'enfant peul / Edgard Sankara -- "Good men in Africa"? From missionaries to mercenaries / Barbara Harlow -- The horror of reproduction in Rider Haggard's King Solomon's mines / Eve Dunbar -- Performing trauma: the body as site of (de)colonization in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions / Jennifer Williams. Child abuse or conflict of interest? Maryse Conde's autobiographical writings / Hal Wylie -- Colonization or globalization? Ernst Udet's account of East Africa from 1932 / Nina Berman -- State and civil society in local and global contexts: colonial contact and bourgeois reforms among the Yoruba of Nigeria / Saheed A. Adejumobi -- Stolen places: archaeology and the politics of identity in the later prehistory of the Kalahari / James Denbow -- The guest is a hot meal: questioning researchers' identities in Mande studies / Clemens Zobel and Jan Jansen -- Writing Yoruba female farmers into history: a study of the food production sector / Olatunji Ojo -- Packaging scholarship / David Henige -- Mindscapes of politics in Africa: twixt remembering and forgetting / Peyi Soyinka-Airewele.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (447 pages)
• Subjects: 960/.07/2; African literature -- History and criticism; Arts, African; Afrikanistik; Geschichtsschreibung; Literatur; Africa -- Historiography; Africa -- Study and teaching (Higher); Afrika; Kongress -- Austin (Tex.) -- 2001
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351324380; 1351324381
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