Book contents
- Decolonizing African Knowledge
- African Identities: Past and Present
- Decolonizing African Knowledge
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Language and Orthography
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- 1 Prologue: My Archive
- 2 Autoethnography and Epistemic Liberation
- Part II History, Fictions, and Factions
- Part III Visual Cultures
- Part IV Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Prologue: My Archive
from Part I - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2022
- Decolonizing African Knowledge
- African Identities: Past and Present
- Decolonizing African Knowledge
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Language and Orthography
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- 1 Prologue: My Archive
- 2 Autoethnography and Epistemic Liberation
- Part II History, Fictions, and Factions
- Part III Visual Cultures
- Part IV Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
“My Archive,” as depicted in this chapter, documents the author’s wealth of experience as a “scholar and researcher, teacher and mentor” in the form of a dialogue with his past to interrogate African studies and, in particular, Yoruba history. With a natural life experience, the author having lived in both colonial and postcolonial Africa, the chapter investigates and interrogates the cultural history of Africa (with focus on the Yoruba) vis-à-vis its evolution into modernity. Autoethnography is noteworthy a narrative of (parts of) self. It is composed of primary sources of two facets – the author’s life works and cultural collections. The archive also, via the latter, interrogates the two colonially imposed eco-political systems of capitalism and socialism as with other cultural impositions and their far-reaching consequences. Each chapter’s categorization is summarized at the latter part of the chapter.
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- Decolonizing African KnowledgeAutoethnography and African Epistemologies, pp. 3 - 18Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022