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The politics of history in contemporary Africa

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The politics of history in contemporary Africa/ Michael Onyebuchi Eze ; with a preface by Frank Ankersmit.
Author:	Eze, Michael Onyebuchi.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2010.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 223 p.)
Subject:	Historiography - Africa. -
Subject:	Africa - Economic policy - 21st century. -
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780230110045 (electronic bk.)

The politics of history in contemporary Africa
Eze, Michael Onyebuchi.

The politics of history in contemporary Africa[electronic resource] /Michael Onyebuchi Eze ; with a preface by Frank Ankersmit. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2010. - 1 online resource (xiv, 223 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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 meaning, a location of power and domination. Eze contends that postcolonial African studies that thrive by way of unanimity, analogy, or homogenenity are merely advancing a "defeatist" historicism. It attempts to gain essence by inverting the terms of colonial discourse and is decisively implicated in the very logic of coloniality. This method of historiography not only stifles the overall socio-political imagination of contemporary Africa but offers a dogmatic blueprint for politics of domination. Eze argues that a chance for an African Renaissance is dependent on review mechanisms of African historiography.

ISBN: 9780230110045 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786612992384

Source: 485873Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Historiography
--Africa.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

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Africa
--Economic policy--21st century.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DT19 / .E987 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 960.072

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