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A comprehensive evaluation of how to read African history. Writing
African History is an essential work for anyone who wants to write,
or even seriously read, African history. It will replace Daniel
McCall's classic Africa in Time Perspective as the introduction to
African history for the next generation and as a reference for
professional historians, interested readers, and anyone who wants
to understand how African history is written. Africa in Time
Perspective was written in the 1960s, when African history was a
new field of research. This new book reflects the development of
African history since then. It opens with a comprehensive
introduction by Daniel McCall, followed by a chapter by the editor
explainingwhat African history is [and is not] in the context of
historical theory and the development of historical narrative, the
humanities, and social sciences. The first half of the book focuses
on sources of historical data while thesecond half examines
different perspectives on history. The editor's final chapter
explains how to combine various sorts of evidence into a coherent
account of African history. Writing African History will become the
most important guide to African history for the 21st century.
Contributors: Bala Achi, Isaac Olawale Albert, Diedre L. Badejo,
Dorothea Bedigian, Barbara M. Cooper, Henry John Drewal,
Christopher Ehret, Toyin Falola, David Henige, Joseph E. Holloway,
John Hunwick, S. O. Y. Keita, William G. Martin, Daniel McCall,
Susan Keech McIntosh, Donatien Dibwe Dia Mwembu, Kathleen Sheldon,
John Thornton, and Masao Yoshida. John Edwards Philips is professor
of international society, Hirosaki University, and author of
Spurious Arabic: Hausa and Colonial Nigeria [Madison, University of
Wisconsin African Studies Center, 2000].
An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past
decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore
a trail blazed originally by Melville J. Herskovits, the father of
New World African studies. Since its original publication, the
field has changed considerably. Africanism has been explored in its
broader dimensions, particularly in the area of white Africanisms.
Thus, the new edition has been revised and expanded. Joseph E.
Holloway has written three essays for the new volume. The first
uses a transnational framework to examine how African cultural
survivals have changed over time and readapted to diasporic
conditions while experiencing slavery, forced labor, and racial
discrimination. The second essay is "Africanisms in African
American Names in the United States." The third reconstructs Gullah
history, citing numerous Africanisms not previously identified by
others. In addition, "The African Heritage of White America" by
John Phillips has been revised to take note of many more instances
of African cultural survivals in white America and to present a new
synthesis of approaches.
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