Recasting the Past : History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (285 pages)
- New African Histories Series .
- New African Histories Series .
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Homespun Historiography and the Academic Profession -- 1: I. B. Akinyele and Early Yoruba Print Culture -- 2: The War of the Books: Petros Lamula and the Cultural History of African Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Natal -- 3: "When You Shake a Tree": The Precolonial and the Postcolonial in Northern Namibian History -- 4: Imagining the Nation: Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula between Politics and History -- 5: Law, Polities, and Inference -- 6: Asante Origins, Egypt, and the Near East: An Idea and Its History -- 7: In Pursuit of the "Higher Medievalism": Local History and Politics in Kilimanjaro -- 8: States of Mind: Political History and the Rwenzururu Kingdom in Western Uganda -- 9: A Community of Suffering: Narratives of War and Exile in the Zambian Lumpa Church -- 10: Merging Ethnic Histories in Senegal: Whose Moral Community? -- 11: The King of the Mijikenda and Other Stories about the Kaya: Heritage, Politics, and Histories in Multiparty Kenya -- 12: Writing Competitive Patriotisms in Eastern Africa -- Contributors -- Index.
The study of intellectual history in Africa is in its infancy. We know very little about what Africa's thinkers made of their times. Recasting the Past brings one field of intellectual endeavor into view.