CGHR and CAS event - Decolonising African Studies?

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• Professor Christopher Clapham, University of Cambridge
• Wednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-19:00
• Room S1, ARB.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact cm2007@cam.ac.uk.

Insistent calls to ‘decolonise’ African studies beg the question of what this quest actually involves. If it refers to an attempt to understand the continent’s diverse and complex societies that builds on their indigenous structures and values, this was a task initiated during the decolonisation era of the 1950s and early 1960s. Led by historians and drawing heavily on insights from anthropology, it led to a revolution in the understanding of Africa, which nonetheless failed to maintain its impetus as a result of the political authoritarianism and economic decay of the post-independence period, which had a particularly damaging impact on Africa’s universities. Of late, however, the phrase has come to refer to developments notably in North America and Europe, which in subordinating the study of Africa to agendas in the global north may appropriately be described not as decolonisation but as recolonisation.

Speaker

Professor Christopher Clapham: Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge, Centre of African Studies; Author, The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay.

The talk and Q&A will be followed by drinks with the speaker. All are welcome to attend!

This talk will be jointly hosted by the Centre of African Studies and the Centre of Governance and Human Rights.

This talk is part of the Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events series.

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• The Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies
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