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020			_a9781847010957
082			_a960.072AFR
100			_aedited by Brenda Cooper
245		0	_aAfrica-centred knowledges _bcrossing fields and worlds
260			_aSuffolk _bJames Currey Ltd _c2014
300			_axix, 211P. ; 25 cm
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aKnowledge production is a highly political and politicized practice. This book questions the way in which knowledge of and about Africa is produced and how this influences development policy and practice. Rebutting both Euro-and Afrocentric production of knowledge, this collection proposes a multiple, global and dynamic Africa-centredness in which scholars use whatever concepts and research tools are most appropriate to the different African contextsin which they work. In the first part of the book key conceptual themes are raised and the epistemological foundations are laid through questions of gender, literature and popular music. Contributors in the second part apply andtest these tools and concepts, examining the pressures on doctoral students in a South African university, the crisis in knowledge about declining marine fish populations, perplexities around why certain ICT provisions fail, or how some Zimbabwean students, despite being beset by poverty, succeed. The light thrown on the mechanics of how knowledge comes into being, and in whose interests, illuminates one of the key issues in African Studies.
650			_aKnowledge, Theory of--Africa. Knowledge, Sociology of. Philosophy, African. Africa--Historiography. Africa--Civilization.
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