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Title Politics of African anticolonial archive / edited by Shiera S. el-Malik and Isaac A. Kamola
Published London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) : color illustrations
Series Kilombo : international relations and colonial questions
Kilombo (Series)
Contents Preface / Pal Aluwalia -- Introduction: Politics of African anticolonial archive / Isaac A. Kamola and Shiera S. el-Malik -- Archiving the universal: commonwealth, truth and pluralism in international law / Siba Grovogui -- Curating and politics: searching for coherency in archives / Shiera S. el-Malik -- Comradeship, committed and conscious: the anticolonial archive speaks to our times / Branwen Gruffydd Jones -- Realism without abstraction: Amílcar Cabral and a politics of the world / Isaac Kamola -- Inviting Marianne to dance: Congolese rumba Lingala as an archive against monument / Míde Ní Shúilleabháin -- Recollections of past events of British colonial rule in northern Ghana, 1900-1956 / Christopher Azaare Anabila -- The skin and the stool: re-crafting histories of belonging in northern Ghana / Anatoli Ignatov -- "But for God's sake, let's decolonize!": self-determination and sovereignty and/as the limits of anticolonial archive / Timothy Vasko -- The hip-hop DJ as black archaeologist: Madlib's Beat Konducta in Africa and the politics of memory / Seth M. Markle -- Archiving Thomas Sankara's presence: metamorphoses of memory and revolution in Burkina Faso / Allen Stack -- Afterword: Archives, life, and counter-archives / Sam Opondo
Summary This volume collects an array of essays that reflect on anticolonialism in Africa, connecting the historical period with the anticolonial present through a critical examination of what constitutes the anticolonial archive
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 28, 2021)
Subject Anti-imperialist movements -- Africa -- Historiography
Decolonization -- Africa -- Historiography
Postcolonialism -- Africa -- Historiography
HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
Decolonization -- Historiography
Politics and government
Postcolonialism -- Historiography
SUBJECT Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Subject Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Malik, Shiera S. el-, 1972- editor, author.
Kamola, Isaac A., editor, author.
LC no. 2016040272
ISBN 9781783487912
1783487917