African Studies, Europe & Africa

John Lonsdale

Africa Spectrum, 2005, vol. 40, issue 3, 377-402

Abstract: Why do most Europeans see 'Africa' as feckless victim and 'the West' as a rescue service? How far are Africanists responsible for this misperception? How are you/we to see to it that the EU and G8 act on the Commission for Africa's generally sound proposals? How far can we look to our predecessors for lessons in how to urge, not that Europe 'does something', but that Africans be allowed a better chance to help themselves? How far might our own analyses of Africans' societies, economies and polities be better adapted to exploring how far African agency might combat local and global structures of inequality, injustice, and misrule? How best, finally, can we help our African academic colleagues to become sources of constructive internal criticism?

Date: 2005
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