Why it is Crucial to Locate the 'African' in African Studies

Robtel Neajai Pailey writes:

African Studies remains a colonised space rife with misrepresentation, homogenisation and essentialising about Africa.

Africans have always produced knowledge about Africa. Their contributions have in some cases been “preferably unheard”. In others they’ve been “deliberately silenced”...[more]

via Okay Africa