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Edited by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
ISBN: 2-86978-198-9 (ISBN 13: 978-2-86978-198-6) 420 pages, Release date April 2007

It is not even an ordinary encyclopaedia for the study of the continent. Rather, it establishes entirely new parameters for Africanist scholarship. Without a doubt, an offering to celebrate among Africans, Africanists, and anyone interested in answering the question: What is Africa’s place in the world today?”

Ato Quayson, Professor of English and Director Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto, Canada.

 “This important publication provides the most comprehensive and critical analyses of Africa studies in the world today. Globally, the book reveals a fundamental, though depressing, fact that the terms of global intellectual exchange are unequal. There is therefore the need to construct an African ‘library’, a body of knowledge that can fully encompass, engage, and examine African phenomena. And it is the responsibility of African scholars, both in the continent and in diaspora, to spearhead this struggle for intellectual decolonization and deconstruction.”

Bethwell A. Ogot, Chancellor, Moi University, Professor Emeritus of History Maseno University, Kenya. 

“Paul Tiyambe Zeleza has put together a timely publication that presents admirably critical assessments of the role and relevance of ‘African Studies’—its content, its march from Eurocentrism to be solidly based in contemporary Africa and its place within the globalization agenda—in its wider political and socio-economic contexts. These discussions will provide scholars, policymakers and practitioners with useful insights into the continuing challenges and opportunities for African studies be it disciplinary or interdisciplinary; be it in Africa or anywhere else.”

Professor Lennart Wohlgemuth, Centre for African Studies, Gothenburg University, formerly Director Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden.

 “These two volumes will be indispensable reading to anyone with an interest in African Studies and in the production of knowledge on Africa. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza has assembled an impressive international group of contributors who address a range of important topics including the disciplines and interdisciplinarity in African Studies, the histories and politics of African Studies in different national contexts outside and within the continent, and the role of the African diaspora in the globalization of knowledge on Africa. Both volumes are framed and contextualised by masterly introductions by the editor which in themselves will become required reading in our field.”

Megan Vaughan, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

 Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is Professor and Head, Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town. He has published scores of essays and has authored or edited more than a dozen books, including most recently Rethinking Africa’s Globalization (2003), the Routledge Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century African History, Leisure in Urban Africa (2003), Science and Technology in Africa (2003) and African Universities in the Twentieth Century (2 volumes) (2004). He is the winner of the 1994 Noma Award for his book A Modern Economic History of Africa (1993) and the 1998 Special Commendation of the Noma Award for Manufacturing African Studies and Crises (1997). He has also published works of fiction.

Contributors

Anshan Li, Aparajita Biswas, Alan Cobley, Jean-Philippe Dedieu, Elizabeth Dimock, Irina Filatova, Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Ronald Kassimir, John McCracken, Mônica Lima, Tanya Lyons, James H. Mittelman, Peter Probst, Pearl T. Robinson, Ann Schlyter, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Masao Yoshida, and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza.  

Contents

	Acknowledgements	v
	List of Contributors	vi
	Introduction: The Internationalisation of African Knowledges Paul Tiyambe Zeleza	1
	Part I: Globalisation Studies and African Studies
1.	Globalisation: An Ascendant Paradigm? Implications for African Studies James H. Mittelman	27
2.	If You Are Part of the Solution, You Are Likely Part of the Problem: Transboundary Formations and Africa Ronald Kassimir	45
3.	Economic Liberalisation and Development in Africa Jomo Kwame Sundaram	62
4.	African Diasporas and Academics: The Struggle for a Global Epistemic Presence Paul Tiyambe Zeleza	86
5.	The Problem of Translation in African Studies: The Case of French Jean-Pierre Dedieu	112
	Part II: African Studies in Regional Contexts
6.	African Studies: France and the United States Bogumil Jewsiewicki	127
7.	New Directions in African Studies in the United Kingdom John McCracken	146
8.	Betwixt and Between: African Studies in Germany Peter Probst	157
9.	Research on Africa: A Swedish Perspective Ann Schlyter	188
10.	Anti-Colonialism in Soviet African Studies (1920s–1960) Irina Filatova	203
11.	Area Studies in Search of Africa: The Case of the United State Pearl T. Robinson	235
12.	‘Returning to the Caribbean by Way of Africa’: African Studies in the Caribbean in Historical Perspective Alan Cobley	277
13.	Let the Drums Sound: The Teaching of African History and the History of Africans in Brazil Mônica Lima	295
14.	African Studies in India Aparajita Biswas	305
15.	The State of African Studies in Australia Tanya Lyons and Elizabeth Dimock	315
16.	African Studies in China in the Twentieth-Century: A Historiographical Survey Li Anshan	336
17.	African Studies in Recent Years in Japan Masao Yoshida	369
	Index

 

ISBN: 2-86978-198-9 (ISBN 13: 978-2-86978-198-6) 420 pages; Release Date April 2007
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