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SUMMARY:CGHR and CAS event - Decolonising African Studies? - Professor Chr
 istopher Clapham\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20191106T170000Z
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CONTACT:cm2007@cam.ac.uk
DESCRIPTION:\nInsistent calls to 'decolonise' African studies beg the ques
 tion of what this quest actually involves. If it refers to an attempt to u
 nderstand the continent's diverse and complex societies that builds on the
 ir indigenous structures and values\, this was a task initiated during the
  decolonisation era of the 1950s and early 1960s. Led by historians and dr
 awing heavily on insights from anthropology\, it led to a revolution in th
 e understanding of Africa\, which nonetheless failed to maintain its impet
 us as a result of the political authoritarianism and economic decay of the
  post-independence period\, which had a particularly damaging impact on Af
 rica's universities. Of late\, however\, the phrase has come to refer to d
 evelopments notably in North America and Europe\, which in subordinating t
 he study of Africa to agendas in the global north may appropriately be des
 cribed not as decolonisation but as recolonisation.\n\n\nThis talk will be
  jointly hosted by the *Centre of African Studies* and the *Centre for Gov
 ernance and Human Rights*.\n\n*Speaker*\n\n*Professor Christopher Clapham*
 : Emeritus Professor\, University of Cambridge\, Centre of African Studies
 \; Author\, _The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay_
LOCATION:Room S1\, ARB
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