Autorentext

Wendell H. Marsh is an associate professor of African literature and philosophy at Mohammad VI Polytechnic University in Ben Guérir, Morocco.

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The Senegalese Muslim scholar Shaykh Musa Kamara wrote a monumental history of West Africa in a time when colonial discourses asserted that Africans lacked both writing and history. Textual Life considers Kamara's story as a parable about the fate of the humanities amid epistemic and technological change.