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Can I read The Politics of History in Contemporary Africa on EtoBox?
The Politics of History in Contemporary Africa by Michael Onyebuchi Eze (auth.) is a politics available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Politics of History in Contemporary Africa about?
This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The invention of Africa is not merely a residue of Africa's encounter with Europe but a project in continuity in contemporary history of Africa, where history has become a location of struggle and meaning, a location of power and domination. Eze contends that postcolonial African studies that thrive by way of unanimity, analogy, or homogenenity are merely advancing a "defeatist" historicism. It attempts t
Who reads The Politics of History in Contemporary Africa?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Michael Onyebuchi Eze (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780230110045
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Language Learning, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25