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Accepted Paper:
African studies in a changing world: a reappraisal
Abiodun Adejumo
(University of Lagos, Nigeria)
The field of African studies has been viewed as a field of study that has undermined respectful exchange with Africa as a place of intellectual production. This paper seeks to analyze how knowledge about Africa is produced and to what end has it addressed Africa's position in scholarship
Paper long abstract:
The field of African Studies has come under serious criticism for its marginalization of African voices. Increasingly, African scholarship has been associated with various forms of disadvantage that undermine respectful exchange with Africa as a place of intellectual production in its own right. This paper seeks to analyze how knowledge about Africa is produced, by whom, and to what ends it is put, and to relate such questions to Africa's position in global scholarship.
This study will adopt qualitative research methodology with data being sourced from secondary means which include textbooks, journals, magazines, and newspapers, and also the modernization theory will be adopted as the theoretical framework. It is expected that this paper might find out that intellectual thought and knowledge production on Africa has continued to exist within a borrowed and dominated framework as the scholarship in African studies is yet to be divorced from the viewpoints of those who created intellectual thought and knowledge production on Africa.