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Reclaiming African History
Depelchin, Jacques
Depelchin, Jacques
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African history has too long been held hostage to European and US historical intellectual frameworks, argues Jacques Depelchin. In this collection of essays from the award-winning website and newsletter Pambazuka News and the Ota Benga Alliance, Depelchin seeks to break that mould. To understand African history requires, he argues, questioning the politically motivated and ideologically dominant discourse about Africa as well as contending with the murderous and bloody impact that capitalism has had on its people – from slavery, colonisation, mass killings and genocide, to the hegemony of international financial institutions dominating the continent. Depelchin challenges global citizens to reconnect poor and dispossessed people across the world, both historically and in the present day, the people who have been forced to look at their own histories through a shattered mirror, deliberately and forcefully crushed so as to render the exercise impossible. These essays – on healing humanity, Haiti, Brazil, South Africa, DR Congo, the food crisis and the genocidal drive of capitalism – testify to the fact that the organic intellectual in Africa or of Africa has to make the choice. The choice is either to continue to perpetuate the silencing of Africa and Africans, by only researching and publishing what is acceptable to the powers that be in academia and the ruling establishments generally, or making a choice in favour of liberation scholarship.
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2011
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9781906387990 (ebook – pdf)
9781906387990
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