Africanizing knowledge : African studies across the disciplines / Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Falola, Toyin.

Jennings, Christian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--Historiography.

Africa.

Historiography.

Africa--Study and teaching (Higher).

African literature--History and criticism.

African literature.

Arts, African.

Physical Description:

447 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2002]

Contents:

I. Africanizing African History

1. From African Historiographies to an African Philosophy of History / E.S. Atieno-Odhiambo 13

2. Ancestral Slaves and Diasporic Tourists: Retelling History by Reversing Movement in a Counternationalist Vodun Festival from Benin / Peter Sutherland 65

3. Called to Hear the Word of God: Musa Kongola's Autobiography / Gregory H. Maddox 85

4. "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 103

5. Lexical Borrowings as Pathways to Senegal's Past and Present / Fallou Ngom 125

6. Reconstructing Modern African Business History / Alusine Jalloh 149

II. African Creative Expression in Context

7. African Art: New Genres and Transformational Philosophies / Christopher Adejumo 165

8. The Role of Traditional Music in the Writing of Cultural History: The Case of the Abaluyia of Western Kenya / Maurice Amutabi 191

9. The Global History of African Music: The Kenyan Song "Malaika" / Ian Eagleson 209

10. Telling Africa's Past in Literature: Whose Story Is It Anyway? / Oyekan Owomoyela 219

11. Representation of a Colonial Reality: World War I in La Victoire en chantant and Amhoullel, l 'Enfant peul / Edgard Sankara 239

III. Writing Colonial Africa

12. "Good Men in Africa"? From Missionaries to Mercenaries / Barbara Harlow 251

13. The Horror of Reproduction in Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines / Eve Dunbar 263

14. Performing Trauma: The Body as Site of (De)colonization in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions / Jennifer Williams 273

15. Child Abuse or Conflict of Interest? Maryse Conde's Autobiographical Writings / Hal Wylie 289

16. Colonization or Globalization? Ernst Udet's Account of East Africa from 1932 / Nina Berman 297

17. State and Civil Society in Local and Global Contexts: Colonial Contact and Bourgeois Reforms among the Yoruba of Nigeria / Saheed A. Adejumobi 315

IV. Scholars and Their Work

18. Stolen Places: Archaeology and the Politics of Identity in the Later Prehistory of the Kalahari / James Denbow 345

19. The Guest is a Hot Meal: Questioning Researchers' Identities in Mande Studies / Clemens Zobel, Jan Jansen 375

20. Writing Yoruba Female Farmers into History: A Study of the Food Production Sector / Olatunji Ojo 387

21. Packaging Scholarship / David Henige 405

22. Mindscapes of Politics in Africa: Twixt Remembering and Forgetting / Peyi Soyinka-Airewele 419.

Notes:

"The papers in this volume were originally presented at the 'Pathways to Africa's Past' conference, held at the University of Texas at Austin from March 30-April 1, 2001"--P. 9.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0765801388

9780765801388

OCLC:

48515590

Publisher Number:

99940835647