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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“remember Vumbi Yoka Mudimbé’s and Ali A. Mazrui’s warnings that “Africa” as a space of knowledge was repeatedly invented from the outside… free ourselves from the image of a “uniform” and “eternal” Africa, of an Africa of innumerable and unchanging “tribes,” of an Africa conceived as the reliquary of our “origins,” for we are going to speak about African societies in history.”
— The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages by François-Xavier Fauvelle
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