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" Africanizing knowledge : "
Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings, editors.
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974849
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b729219
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Africanizing knowledge : : African studies across the disciplines /\ Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings, editors.
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New Brunswick, N.J. :: Transaction Publishers,, ©2002.
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1 online resource (447 pages) :: illustrations, map
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141280034X
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: 9781412800341
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"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"--Page 9.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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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.
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African literature-- History and criticism.
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Arts, African.
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African literature.
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Arts, African.
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Education, Higher.
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Historiography.
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HISTORY-- General.
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Africa, Historiography.
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Africa, Study and teaching (Higher)
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Africa.
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| Dewey Classification
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960/.07/2
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DT19.A346 2002eb
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NB 5550rvk
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Falola, Toyin.
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Jennings, Christian.
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