Includes essays that study the warp and weft of Africa's homespun historical work. This book traces the strands of discourse from which historical entrepreneurs drew, highlighting the sources of inspiration and reference that enlivened their work.

Autorentext

Derek R. Peterson is a senior lecturer in African history and director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Creative Writing: Translation, Bookkeeping, and the Work of Imagination in Colonial Kenya and editor of The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History. Giacomo Macola is a lecturer in African history at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of The Kingdom of Kazembe: History and Politics in North-Eastern Zambia and Katanga to 1950 and one of the editors of One Zambia, Many Histories: Towards a History of Post-colonial Zambia.

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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.