African Studies in the Academy: The Cornucopia of Theory, Praxis and Transformation in Africa?

African Studies in the Academy: The Cornucopia of Theory, Praxis and Transformation in Africa?For a long time, African Studies as a discipline has been spearheaded by academics and institutions in the Global North. This puts African Studies on the continent at a crossroads of making choices on whether such a discipline can be legitimately accepted as an epistemological discipline seeking objectivity and truth about Africa and the African peoples or a discipline meant to perpetuate the North's hegemonic socio economic, political and epistemic

Gregory the Great

Syn is thriving and Luke is doing big things

This collection of essays explores several sites of racialized power

made the movements more effective in the 1980s

reminds us about the joy of repairing things with our hands and preserving stories with our hearts

developed the Federalist party

and strange effects of light and color

Edward Telles seeks to understand the reality of race in Brazil and how well it squares with these traditional and revisionist views of race relations

and find your way home to your golden diamond heart

Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora is a response to a 1990 publication that studied the persistence and resilience of black (African) diasporic populations in the Caribbean

as well as recent scholarship that explores violence

In Laila's kitchen