Whose History Counts: Decolonising African Pre-colonial Historiography

Whose History Counts: Decolonising African Pre-colonial Historiography
ISBN-10
1928314112
ISBN-13
9781928314110
Category
History
Pages
218
Language
English
Published
2018-11-29
Publisher
AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Authors
Lungisile Ntsebeza, June Bam, Allan Zinn

Description

Originally planned as a fact-based book on the pre-colonial history of the Eastern Cape in the true tradition of history, this ground-breaking book focuses on epistemological and foundational questions about the writing of history and whose history counts. Whose History Counts challenges the very concept of ?pre-colonial? and explores methodologies on researching and writing history. The reason for this dramatic change of focus is attributed in the introduction of the book to the student-led rebellion that erupted following the #RhodesMustFall campaign which started at the University of Cape Town on 9 March 2015. Key to the rebellion was the students? opposition to what they dubbed ?colonial? education and a clamour for, among others, a ?decolonised curriculum?. This book is a direct response to this clarion call.

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