Recasting the past : history writing and political work in modern Africa / edited by Derek R. Peterson and Giacomo Macola.
| Uniform Title: | New African histories series.
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| Language: | English |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | New African histories series.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 276 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 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.