Africa in the World’s Time

Mamadou Diouf is the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and director of Columbia University’s Institute for African Studies. A PhD graduate from the University of Paris-Sorbonne, he previously taught at the University of Michigan and Cheikh Anta Diop University. Diouf has authored and edited numerous works on African historiography, politics, and Islam. Jill Jarvis is a literary scholar and associate professor in the Department of French at Yale University and a member of the Councils on African and Middle East Studies. Jarvis is the author of Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony and cofounder of the Desert Futures research collective.

• 1.Subverting Hierarchies 2.Consensus and Controversies3.Three Insurrectionary Challenges4.What Geography for African History?5.African Antiquity6.African American Forerunners7.The Black Atlantic Lays Claim to Africa8.The Colonial Interjection9.Orality and African Sources10.Inventions of Tradition11.History in Plural12.Translator’s Notes

“This erudite and panoramic survey clarifies what’s at stake in how Africa’s story is told and who gets to tell it.”