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African Historiography
African Historiography
Our (subsaharan) African search committee plans to introduce some readings in
African history into our departmental faculty seminar. The first work chosen
is Catherine Coquery-Vidrovtich, AFRICA: ENDURANCE & CHANGE SOUTH OF THE
SAHARA (trans., 1988), chs. 1-3. The purpose is to acquaint the faculty at
least a little with questions that currently engage African specialists prior
to hiring one. Like most departments of our size we have only one African
historian, and our colleague in African history has retired because of serious
illness. So, emboldened by the fascinating discussion of African iron, I ask
for suggestions about what the department faculty should read. (And how is
the work of Coquery-Vidrovitch regarded?)
David Fahey, Miami Univ., Oxford, OH 45056, USA
dfahey@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu
Message-Id: 9410041216.AA19808@mec.sas.upenn.edu
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 08:12:29 -0500
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