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Title Africanising African history: decolonisation of knowledge in UNESCO's general history of Africa (1964-1998)
Full text https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3244250
Date 2021
Author(s) Schulte Nordholt, L.R.C.
Contributor(s) Paul, H.J.; Gewald, J.B.; Woolf, D. (Committee member); Bruijn, M.E. de (Committee member); Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. (Committee member); O'Malley, A. (Committee member); Vogel, J. (Committee member); Leiden University
Abstract This thesis researches how and why the UNESCO sponsored General History of Africa (1964-1998) sought to Africanise and decolonise the writing of African history in the wake of the political independence of many West and East African countries in the early 1960s. It provides a case-study on the practice of African historiography in the second half of the twentieth century. The thesis investigates how formulated ideals of a decolonisation were translated into practice and analyses what this might tell us about the establishment of African history within the humanities and the history of decolonising knowledge production. The study is divided in three parts: the first part concerns the formulated ideals of African history as they came into being in opposition to eurocentrism during the 1960s and early 1970s. Part two shifts the focus to the realities of the ideals discussed in part one. How did the historians of the GHA try to bring their ideals into practice and what came of them during the long process of drafting the GHA? The third and final part of the thesis focuses on the reception and retrospective perception of the project in its final years and after it was finished. - Nederlandse Wetenschappelijke Organisatie (NWO) Beurs: promoties in de geesteswetenschappen - Political Culture and National Identity
Subject(s) African historiography; Decolonisation; Decolonisation of knowledge; History of the humanities; African intellectual history; Historiography; History of historiography; History of UNESCO; Global history; Scholarly personae
Language en
Type of publication Doctoral Thesis; info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis; Text
Format application/pdf
Rights https://hdl.handle.net/1887/license:5
Identifier lucris-id:432635881
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
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