L'historiographie africaine en Afrique

Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch

Revue Tiers-Monde, 2013, vol. n° 216, issue 4, 111-127

Abstract: English written historiography began a generation before French written historiography. Firstly, this paper analyzes the historical reasons for the delay, and then the birth of the Ibadan, Dar es Salam, and Dakar Schools. African researchers of the 80s and 90s wrote a large number of Masters and Ph. Ds most of which were not published. Often mostly evenemential, they were nonetheless full of information. French ?Africanists? were mistrustful of so-called ?afrocentric? thinking, and critical of a sometimes sterilizing patrimonialism. They were unaware that, for the last 40 years, African history has been mainly written by African historians. This mistrust is obsolete. In spite of huge material difficulties, modern African historians are of universal value.

Keywords: Africa; French written historiography; English written historiography; history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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