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Politics Of African Anticolonial Archive, Shiera S. Malik, Isaac Kamola
Politics Of African Anticolonial Archive, Shiera S. Malik, Isaac Kamola
Shiera S el-Malik
African political writing of the mid-20th century seeks to critically engage with questions of identity, history, and the state for the purpose of national and human liberation.
This volume collects an array of essays that reflect on anticolonialism in Africa, broadly defined. Each contribution connects the historical period with the anticolonial present through a critical examination of what constitutes the anticolonial archive. The volume considers archive in a Derridean sense, as always in the process of being constructed such that the assessment of the African anticolonial archive is one that involves a contemporary process of curating. The essays in …