Hostname: page-component-669899f699-b58lm Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-04-24T12:42:30.676Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Future Directions in History in Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Lorelle Semley Open the ORCID record for Lorelle Semley [Opens in a new window] ,
Terri Barnes ,
Bayo Holsey  and
Egodi Uchendu Open the ORCID record for Egodi Uchendu [Opens in a new window]
Lorelle Semley*
Affiliation:
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA USA
Terri Barnes
Affiliation:
University of Illnois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL USA
Bayo Holsey
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA
Egodi Uchendu
Affiliation:
University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nsukka, Nigeria
*
Corresponding author: Lorelle Semley; E-mail: [email protected]
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

With the 50th volume of History in Africa, the journal is not quite fifty years old. As we prepare for the 50th anniversary of the journal next year, it is a perfect time to examine the present and imagine the future of our field. Conceived as a journal concerned with historical method, scholarly debate, and sources, History in Africa has both generated and reflected significant epistemological change. But we also recognize that African history and African Studies, more generally, are engaged in longstanding and ongoing struggles to move beyond colonial ways of knowing.1 How can History in Africa actively reorient and reimagine its role in this crucial intellectual work?

Type
Introduction
Information
History in Africa , Volume 50 , May 2023 , pp. 1 - 6
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of African Studies Association

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Chachage, Chambi. “From Ghettoizing to Gentrifying African Studies,” https://udadisi.com/from-ghettoizing-to-gentrifying-african/, (accessed 18 December 2023).Google Scholar
Falola, Toyin. Decolonizing African Studies: Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice (Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2022).CrossRefGoogle Scholar