This edited volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolving landscape of African studies in the new millennium. It details new trends, approaches, and theoretical frameworks that have the potential to shape the future of the discipline. Curated by the up-and-coming scholar Eric Tsimi in collaboration with the distinguished anthropologist Andrea Behrends and field-leading decolonial theorist Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, this collection explores methods and approaches being developed across the humanities and social sciences for decolonizing knowledge, facilitating knowledge transfer, and addressing perceived gaps between theory and practical emergencies.
For its broad coverage of a broad interdisciplinary field, as well as for its in-depth insights into the latest developments within the field as a whole, African Studies Now is a must-have for researchers and students of African studies, global development, indigenous studies, and related fields and disciplines.
A comprehensive analysis of the evolving landscape of African studies in the new millennium
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A comprehensive analysis of the evolving landscape of African studies in the new millennium
01 . Introduction Éric Essono Tsimi, Andrea Behrends, and Sabelo
Ndlovu-Gatsheni
02. Inheriting Ones Heritage: Restitution and Decolonization Seloua Luste
Boulbina
03. Overcoming Epistemic Coloniality: Reappropriating Self through Indigenous
Knowledge Claude Abé
04. Exploring the Interplay of Afropolitanism, Afro-Radicalism, and
Afrocentricity: A Pan-African Approach from an Afrotropic Standpoint Mathias
Éric Owona Nguini
05. Racialization of the Arabic Language Through the Francophone Lens of
Sansal Sana Alaya Seghair
06. On the Entrapment of Francophone Africa Éric Essono Tsimi
07. Decolonizing the Training Curricula in Social Sciences in Cameroon
Estelle Kouokam
08. Provisional Notes on Africas Political Epistemology Pélagie Chantal
Belomo Essono
09. The Motion of Memory: Cinema as Re-enactment in Postcolonial Healing
Jean-Pierre Bekolo
10. Reimagining African Scholarship: Epistemic Freedom, Decoloniality, and
Transnational Perspectives Éric Essono Tsimi and Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
11. A Conversation with Andrea Behrends on Travelling Models, Resource
Management, and African Transformations Éric Essono Tsimi and Andrea
Behrends
12. Decolonial Currents and Mystical Traditions Brice Molo, Peter Geschiere,
and Florence Bernault
13. Afterword Amber Murrey
Eric Essono Tsimi is Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York, USA. He has won several awards and fellowships including the Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, the CUNY Scholar Incentive Award, the Paula Berggren Enrichment Fund Award, and the PSC-CUNY Award.
Andrea Behrends is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig, where she serves as the Head of the Institute of Anthropology.
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Vice-Dean of research and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South at the University of Bayreuth in Germany.
