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AFRICAN SCHOLARS, AFRICAN STUDIES AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION ON AFRICA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2016

Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe
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The editors invited this article, and the subsequent four response pieces, as a contribution to the debate on knowledge production in Africa and African studies, which was a critical issue in the late colonial and post-independence African universities, and which has continued to be a concern of leading African scholars in the decades since.

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Debate: Knowledge Production in Africa
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Africa , Volume 86 , Issue 2 , May 2016 , pp. 324 - 338
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Copyright © International African Institute 2016 

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