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