Philip S Zachernuk
Biographic Data
| ID | 116536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip S Zachernuk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip S |
| FAMILY NAME | Zachernuk |
| SIGNATURE | ZACHERNUK P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa
Aderinto takes Nigeria's colonial history in a fresh direction, inspired by studies in animal history in Africa and elsewhere. The principal aim is to create more inclusive historical knowledge by seeing animals as agents of history, continuing the enrichment of a historical inquiry that followed the transformative incorporation of such concerns as gender, geography, or material culture. Ambitiously including multiple animal species, he promises …
A Fistful of Shells
Reviewed by: A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green Philip S. Zachernuk Toby Green, A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2019) Despite decades of effort by Africanist historians, Africa remains perennially misunderstood, falsely disconnected from the stream of history. Historians of the Atla…
Toby Green, A Fistful of Shells
Living with Nkrumahism
Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State and Pan-Africanism in Ghana." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(3), pp. 402–404
Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence
Reviewed by: Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon by Meredith Terretta Philip Zachernuk Terretta, Meredith– Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. Pp. 367. This book is a valuable contribution to the current effort to reframe and reinvigorate our understanding of the nationalis…
The Krio of West Africa
"The Krio of West Africa: Islam, Culture, Creolization and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 50(1), pp. 127–128
The Man-Leopard Murders
Book Review| May 01 2010 The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria David Pratten Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 2007 xii + 425 pp., $49.95 (cloth) Philip S. Zachernuk Philip S. Zachernuk Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010)…
Of Irony and Empire
Book Review| August 01 2009 Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa Laura Rice Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007 ix + 240 pp., $70.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper) Philip S. Zachernuk Philip S. Zachernuk Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle E…
James H. Meriwether — Proudly We Can Be Africans
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Africa since 1940
Africa since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this important book continues to help students understand the process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. A history of decolonisation and independence, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and …
Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana
Critical Agents
As John Flint has pointed up more than once, historians’ models do not always match the facts revealed by carefully researched reconstruction. One of his articles on African decolonization showed convincingly that the nationalist drama presenting decolonization as heroic struggle was more mythical than real, while the dependency theorists’ suggestion of planned neocolonialism was contradicted by the archival record. 1 Both these models rest on a …
Nationalism and African Intellectuals
Colonial Subjects
Political Discourses in African Thought
Abolitionists Abroad
Colonial Subjects
West African intellectuals have a long history of engaging with European intrusion by reflecting on their status as colonial and postcolonial subjects. Against the tendency to view this engagement as a confrontation between the modern west and traditional Africa, Philip S. Zachernuk argues that the interaction is far more fluid and diverse. Challenging the frequent denigration of western-educated Africans as a culturally barren kleptocratic elite…
Intellectual Traditions of Pre-Colonial Africa
A History of Africa
In the Realms of Gold
African history and imperial culture in colonial Nigerian schools
Evaluations of colonial education policy tend to treat it as a tool for applying imperial ideology, which-among other things-denied the Africans their past. This study of the debate about history education in southern Nigeria in the 1930s suggests the need to re-evaluate this assessment. While some imperial pronouncements did deny African history, colonial administration also required historical knowledge. Further, many colonial educators thought…
Pawnship in Africa
Confronting Historical Paradigms
Of Origins and Colonial Order
The professional Nigerian nationalist historiography which emerged in reaction against the imperialist Hamitic Hypothesis – the assertion that Africa's history had been made only by foreigners – is rooted in a complex West African tradition of critical dialogue with European ideas. From the mid-nineteenth century, western-educated Africans have re-worked European ideas into distinctive Hamitic Hypotheses suited to their colonial location. This ac…
Edward W. Blyden’s Intellectual Transformations
Colonial Subjects
Pawnship in Africa
Of Origins and Colonial Order
The professional Nigerian nationalist historiography which emerged in reaction against the imperialist Hamitic Hypothesis – the assertion that Africa's history had been made only by foreigners – is rooted in a complex West African tradition of critical dialogue with European ideas. From the mid-nineteenth century, western-educated Africans have re-worked European ideas into distinctive Hamitic Hypotheses suited to their colonial location. This ac…
Abolitionists Abroad
African history and imperial culture in colonial Nigerian schools
Evaluations of colonial education policy tend to treat it as a tool for applying imperial ideology, which-among other things-denied the Africans their past. This study of the debate about history education in southern Nigeria in the 1930s suggests the need to re-evaluate this assessment. While some imperial pronouncements did deny African history, colonial administration also required historical knowledge. Further, many colonial educators thought…
Living with Nkrumahism
Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State and Pan-Africanism in Ghana." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(3), pp. 402–404
Nationalism and African Intellectuals
In the Realms of Gold
Edward W. Blyden’s Intellectual Transformations
Chief Obafemi Awolowo's Socio-Political Philosophy
History of Africa
American Intellectuals and African Nationalists, 1955-1970
Of Origins and Colonial Order
The professional Nigerian nationalist historiography which emerged in reaction against the imperialist Hamitic Hypothesis – the assertion that Africa's history had been made only by foreigners – is rooted in a complex West African tradition of critical dialogue with European ideas. From the mid-nineteenth century, western-educated Africans have re-worked European ideas into distinctive Hamitic Hypotheses suited to their colonial location. This ac…
The Debate on Colonialism, Eurocentricism and History
Colonialism and Development in the Contemporary World
Traditions of Igbo Origin
Confronting Historical Paradigms
Pawnship in Africa
A History of Africa
In the Realms of Gold
African history and imperial culture in colonial Nigerian schools
Evaluations of colonial education policy tend to treat it as a tool for applying imperial ideology, which-among other things-denied the Africans their past. This study of the debate about history education in southern Nigeria in the 1930s suggests the need to re-evaluate this assessment. While some imperial pronouncements did deny African history, colonial administration also required historical knowledge. Further, many colonial educators thought…
Intellectual Traditions of Pre-Colonial Africa
Abolitionists Abroad
Colonial Subjects
West African intellectuals have a long history of engaging with European intrusion by reflecting on their status as colonial and postcolonial subjects. Against the tendency to view this engagement as a confrontation between the modern west and traditional Africa, Philip S. Zachernuk argues that the interaction is far more fluid and diverse. Challenging the frequent denigration of western-educated Africans as a culturally barren kleptocratic elite…
Critical Agents
As John Flint has pointed up more than once, historians’ models do not always match the facts revealed by carefully researched reconstruction. One of his articles on African decolonization showed convincingly that the nationalist drama presenting decolonization as heroic struggle was more mythical than real, while the dependency theorists’ suggestion of planned neocolonialism was contradicted by the archival record. 1 Both these models rest on a …
Nationalism and African Intellectuals
Colonial Subjects
Political Discourses in African Thought
Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana
James H. Meriwether — Proudly We Can Be Africans
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Africa since 1940
Africa since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this important book continues to help students understand the process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. A history of decolonisation and independence, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and …
Of Irony and Empire
Book Review| August 01 2009 Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa Laura Rice Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007 ix + 240 pp., $70.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper) Philip S. Zachernuk Philip S. Zachernuk Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle E…
The Man-Leopard Murders
Book Review| May 01 2010 The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria David Pratten Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 2007 xii + 425 pp., $49.95 (cloth) Philip S. Zachernuk Philip S. Zachernuk Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010)…
Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence
Reviewed by: Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon by Meredith Terretta Philip Zachernuk Terretta, Meredith– Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. Pp. 367. This book is a valuable contribution to the current effort to reframe and reinvigorate our understanding of the nationalis…
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