Recasting the past : history writing and political work in modern Africa / edited by Derek R. Peterson and Giacomo Macola.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:New African histories series.
Other Authors: Peterson, Derek R., 1971-
Macola, Giacomo
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2009.
Series:New African histories series.
Subjects:
Physical Description:viii, 276 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction: Homespun historiography and the academic profession / Derek R. Peterson and Giacomo Macola -- [Part 1: Creative lives, creative writing] -- I.B. Akinyele and early Yoruba print culture / Karin Barber -- The war of the books: Petros Lamula and the cultural history of African nationalism in Twentieth-Century Natal / Paul La Hausse de Lalouvière -- "When you shake a tree": the precolonial and the postcolonial in Northern Namibian history / Patricia Hayes -- Imagining the nation. Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula between politics and history / Giacomo Macola -- [Part 2: Historical entanglements] -- Law, polities, and inference / Richard Rathbone -- Asante origins, Egypt, and the Near East. an idea and its history / T.C. McCaskie -- In pursuit of the "higher medievalism" local history and politics in Kilimanjaro / Emma Hunter -- [Part 3: Dissident history] -- States of mind. Political history and the Rwenzururu Kingdom in Western Uganda / Derek R. Peterson -- A community of suffering narratives of war and exile in the Zambian Lumpa Church / David M. Gordon -- [Part 4: Democracy and historical argument] -- Merging ethnic histories in Senegal. Whose moral community? / Etienne Smith -- The King of the Mijikenda and other stories about the Kaya heritage, politics, and histories in multiparty Kenya / Justin Willis -- Writing competitive patriotisms in Eastern Africa / John Lonsdale. 
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