A future with a past: Resurrecting the study of Africa in the post-Africanist era

Africa Today

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 309-326

  West, Michael O ^b   Martin, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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1. The authors would like to thank Jim Cason for his perceptive suggestions and anonymous reviewers for their challenging reactions - in light of which we must note, as usual, that we are responsible for the arguments here.
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