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African Historians and ‘Nation Times’ African Historians and ‘Nation Times’
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Social Scientists and the ‘Wind of Change’ Social Scientists and the ‘Wind of Change’
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Nkrumah’s Black Star and Sékou Touré’s ‘Non!’ Nkrumah’s Black Star and Sékou Touré’s ‘Non!’
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But Whose Dream was it Anyway? But Whose Dream was it Anyway?
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Complicating the Metanarrative Complicating the Metanarrative
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Whose Dreams and Which Dreams? Whose Dreams and Which Dreams?
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‘Leave the Dead Some Room to Dance’ ‘Leave the Dead Some Room to Dance’
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12 Between the Present and History: African Nationalism and Decolonization
Get accessJean Allman teaches African history at Washington University, where she is the J.H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities and chairs the History Department. She is the author of The Quills of the Porcupine: Asante Nationalism in an Emergent Ghana (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993); “I Will Not Eat Stone”: A Women’s History of Colonial Asante (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000), with Victoria Tashjian; Tongnaab: The History of a West African God (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005), with John Parker; and has edited several collections, including Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004). She co-edits the New African Histories book series at Ohio University Press and for six years co-edited the Journal of Women’s History.
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Published:16 December 2013
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Abstract
It is now a half-century since most countries on the African continent saw the end of colonial rule. The first sustained scholarly attention to decolonization was authored largely by social scientists in the 1950s, who focused on ruling elites, party politics, constitutional development, and the transfer of power. Their successors, in the 1960s–1970s, brought new interpretive tools to the study of decolonization, including dependency theory, in order to make sense of the contemporary realities of political instability and economic underdevelopment. Since the 1980s, historians have brought the insights of women’s history, labour history, and social history to the table in order to demonstrate that nationalist scripts were often written ‘from below’. More recently, a focus on political imagination and political cultures, as well as the utilization of comparative and transnational approaches, has worked to free decolonization from its moorings as either the triumphal ‘end’ of colonial history or the opening scene in a postcolonial tale of ‘what went wrong’.
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