Unmaking Africa-the Humanities and the Study of What?

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Unmaking Africa-the Humanities and the Study of What?

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ID	4641021
Author(s)	Macamo, Elísio
Author(s) at UniBasel	Macamo, Elisio
Year	2021
Title	Unmaking Africa-the Humanities and the Study of What?
Journal	History of Humanities
Volume	6
Number	2
Pages / Article-Number	381-395
Keywords	Africa, Humanities, Decolonization, Post-Colonialism
Abstract	This essay addresses what I take to be a paradox in Africa's constitution as a scholarly object of inquiry. The study of Africa renders Africa both visible and invisible. When the humanities-and the social sciences-appear beleaguered, solving this paradox may hold the key to understanding what we need to say we are studying for us to say what we are good for. What is left over when we remove Africa from the stock of knowledge the humanities produce?
Publisher	The University of Chicago Press
ISSN/ISBN	2379-3163 ; 2379-3171
URL	https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/715863?af=R
edoc-URL	https://edoc.unibas.ch/87744/
Full Text on edoc	Available
Digital Object Identifier DOI	10.1086/715863

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