Kwame Nkrumah, African Studies, and the Politics of Knowledge Production in the Black Star of Africa

African studies in the North is a peripheral part of the academy, whereas the Euro-American epistemological order remains central in the African academy. Since the colonial encounter, the construction of scholarly knowledge about Africa has been internationalized both in the sense of it being an act...

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Published in:The International journal of African historical studies Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 181 - 203
Main Author: Allman, Jean
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA Boston University African Studies Center 01.01.2013
African Studies Center
Boston University
Subjects:
Academic discipline
Africa
African culture
African history
African studies
Colonial history
Colonialism
Coups d'etat
Educational research
Epistemology
Ethnology
General studies
Historical source materials
History
History instruction
Information production
Internationalization
Knowledge
Memoirs
Nkrumah, Kwame
Nkrumah, Kwame (1909-1972)
Nkrumah, Kwame (1909-72)
Political debate
Politics
Postcolonialism
Research and teaching
Research universities
Scholarships
Social construction
Sources and methods
Studies
Terms of trade
Universities
West Africa
Ghana
Africa
United States > US
Politics
Research
Knowledge
Africanism
Production
ISSN:0361-7882, 2326-3016
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Summary:African studies in the North is a peripheral part of the academy, whereas the Euro-American epistemological order remains central in the African academy. Since the colonial encounter, the construction of scholarly knowledge about Africa has been internationalized both in the sense of it being an activity involving scholars in various parts of the world and the inordinate influence of externally generated models on African scholarship.7 But was this outcome already and always inevitable?
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ISSN:0361-7882
2326-3016