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SUMMARY:Africa as a “Dissimilar” System? Knowledge Production on Afric
 a in the UK - Prof Wale Adebanwi\, University of Oxford
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CONTACT:Victoria Jones
DESCRIPTION:In studying Africa outside of Africa in the age of “global s
 tudies”\, do we have to treat the continent as a dissimilar system to be
  able to give a robust account of the continent’s diversity\, complexity
  as well as its presence in the 'in-common' of the world?\n\n-------------
 ---\n\nProfessor Wale Adebanwi is Director of the African Studies Centre a
 t the University of Oxford and the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations. A p
 olitical scientist and anthropologist\, he is author of Nation as Grand Na
 rrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (UPR\, 2016)\, Yor
 uba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo and Corporate A
 gency (CUP 2014)\, and Authority Stealing: Anti-Corruption War and Democra
 tic Politics in Post-Military Nigeria (CAP\, 2012). He is the editor of se
 ven volumes\, most recently The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Afri
 ca: Beyond the Margins (James Currey 2017)\; he is co-editor of AFRICA and
  former co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. He is al
 so a visiting professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Research\,
  Rhodes University\, Grahamstown\, South Africa.\n\n 
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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