Authenticity, naming and cultural identities in Khoisan historiography for epistemic justice Submitted in response to the essay question: Critically discuss the various discourses on the ‘precolonial’ within southern Africa, with KhoiSan Historiography as a case study. What are the implications for epistemological transformation in southern Africa? AXL5202F Problematising the Study of Africa, Centre for African … Continue reading The Khoisan Revivalist Movement and the Decolonial Turn
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Imperial Ahistorical History and the Conundrum of Postcolonial Studies: the challenges of modernity and the nation state in African History
This piece is from a school assignment, submitted in response to the essay topic: [I]nsofar as the academic discourse of history – that is, ‘history’ produced in the institutional site of the university – is concerned, Europe remains the sovereign theoretical subject of all histories, including the ones we call ‘Indian’, ‘Chinese’, ‘Kenyan’, and so. … Continue reading Imperial Ahistorical History and the Conundrum of Postcolonial Studies: the challenges of modernity and the nation state in African History
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