White masculinity in African historical studies

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What is an African historian? Negotiating scholarly personae in UNESCO's General History of Africa

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From Metropole to Margin in UNESCO’s General History of Africa – Documents of Historiographical Decolonization in Paris and Ibadan

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Verzet in de leerfabriek

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Multiple Hamitic Theories and Black Egyptians: Negotiating Tensions between Standards of Scholarship and Political Imperatives in UNESCO’s General History of Africa (1964–1998)

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Africanising African history: decolonisation of knowledge in UNESCO's general history of Africa (1964-1998)

This thesis researches how and why the UNESCO sponsored General History of Africa (1964-1998) sought to Africanise and decolonise the writing of African history in the wake of the political independence of many West and East African countries in the early 1960s. It provides a case-study on the practice of African historiography in the second half of the twentieth century. The thesis investigates how formulated ideals of a decolonisation were translated into practice and analyses what this might tell us about the establishment of African history within the humanities and the history of decolonising knowledge production. The study is divided in three parts: the first part concerns the formulated ideals of African history as they came into being in opposition to eurocentrism during the 1960s and early 1970s. Part two shifts the focus to the realities of the ideals discussed in part one. How did the historians of the GHA try to bring their ideals into practice and what came of them during the long process of drafting the GHA? The third and final part of the thesis focuses on the reception and retrospective perception of the project in its final years and after it was finished. Nederlandse Wetenschappelijke Organisatie (NWO) Beurs: promoties in de geesteswetenschappenPolitical Culture and National Identit

Introduction: the posterizing impulse in philosophy of history

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Voetnootpraktijken

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Colonial heritage and restitution: a round table discussion among museum professionals

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Review of [Encyclopédie des historiographies: Afriques, Amériques, Asies. Vol. 1: Sources et genres historiques (tome 1 et tome 2)] by [Nathalie Kouamé, Éric P. Meyer, and Anne Viguier]

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