Guide to authors

Edited by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
ISBN: 2-86978-197-0 (ISBN 13: 978-2-86978-197-9); 494 pages, November 2006

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

Pius Adesanmi, Collins O. Airhihenbuwa, Elias K. Bongmba, Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia, Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, Toyin Falola, Lewis R. Gordon, Ezekiel Kalipeni, Kwaku Larbi Korang, Zine Magubane, Sinfree Makoni, Amina Mama, Ulrike Meinhof, Abdul Raufu Mustapha, Emmanuel Nnadozie, Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Nkiru Nzegwu, Benjamin Ofori-Amoah, Joseph R. Oppong, Oyeronke Oyewumi, Jemima Pierre, Kopano Ratele and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

 Contents

	Acknowledgement	v
	Notes on Contributors	vi
	Introduction: The Disciplining of Africa Paul Tiyambe Zeleza	1
	Part I: The Disciplines and African Studies
1.	Anthropology and the Race of/for Africa Jemima Pierre	39
2.	Africana Sociology: A Critical Journey from Pluralism to Postcolonialism Zine Magubane	62
3.	Ethnography on an Awkward Scale: Postcolonial Anthropology and the Violence of Abstraction Jean and John Comaroff	75
4.	Third Generation African Literatures and Contemporary  Theorising Pius Adesanmi	105
5.	An Argument for Ethno-Language Studies in Africa Sinfree Makoni and Ulrike Meinhof	117
6.	African Historiography and the Crisis of Institutions Esperanza Brizuel-Garcia	135
7.	Writing and Teaching National History in Africa in the Era of Global History Toyin Falola	168
8.	Rethinking Africanist Political Science Abdul Raufu Mustapha	187
9.	Economics and African Studies Emmanuel Nnadozie	203
10.	Trajectories of Modern African Geography Ezekiel Kalipeni, Joseph Oppong and Benjamin Ofori-Amoah	233
11.	Psychology for a Contemporary Africa Kopano Ratele	274
	Part II: Interdisciplinary Studies and African Studies
12.	Feminist Studies in the African Contexts: The Challenge of Transformative Teaching in African Universities Amina Mama	297
13.	Conceptualising Gender in African Studies Oyeronke Oyewumi	313
14.	Studies of the African Visual Arts and the Politics of Exclusion Nkiru Nzegwu	321
15.	The Study of African Religions: A Sketch of the Past and Prospects for the Future Elias Bongmba	338
16.	Framing an African-centred Discourse on Global Health: Centralising Identity and Culture in Theorising Health Behaviour Collins Airhihenbuwa	375
17.	Rethinking Communication Research and Development in Africa Francis B. Nyamnjoh	393
18.	African Cultural Studies and Contemporary African Philosophy Lewis R. Gordon	417
19.	Useless Provocation, or Meaningful Challenge? The ‘Posts’ vs. African Studies Kwaku Korang	443
	Index	467

ISBN: 2-86978-197-0 (ISBN 13: 978-2-86978-197-9); 494 pages, November 2006
Africa: 35.00 USD; CFA 17,000 ; Elsewhere: USD 50.00 / £39.95 

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