P T Zeleza
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 28405 |
|---|---|
| NOME | P T Zeleza |
| PRENOMES | P T |
| SOBRENOME | Zeleza |
| ASSINATURA | ZELEZA P T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Loyola Marymount University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0737-1862 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 194 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Thandika Mkandawire and the African Intellectual Decolonisation Movement
Keynote Address, New Directions in African Political Economy, Scholarly Conference, The Africa Institute, Global Studies University, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 14–16 November 2024 It is a profound honour to deliver the keynote address at this landmark conference on New Directions in African Political Economy, hosted by The Africa Institute at Global Studies University, Sharjah, in celebration of the life and legacy of the incomparable Profess…
Thandika Mkandawire
The Turbulent 2010s
The 2010s was an exceptionally turbulent decade characterised by complex and contradictory changes at local, regional and global levels. The changes encompassed all spheres from the political to the economic, as well as the social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of global society. This article identifies and analyses six key trends in the historical trajectory of the period. First, the decade was marked by intense political polarization i…
Africa’s persistent struggles for development and democracy in a multipolar world
Ever since the emergence of the modern world system more than half a millennium ago, developments within Africa have always been connected to and affected by global dynamics and forces. This local
Leveraging Africa’s Global Diasporas for the Continent’s Development
In this paper I seek to share some of the insights I have gained from my studies on the African diaspora over the past two decades. It begins by mapping out some of the analytical framings of African Diaspora Studies, with particular reference to the spatial scope and temporal dimensions of the African diaspora. This is followed by an examination of the multiple and multi-layered contributions that African diasporas have made and continue to make…
The Challenges of Writing African Economic History
This chapter discusses the challenges of writing African economic history and examines the challenges of spatial and temporal scales. It looks at themes and theories and focuses on the challenges of drawing intra- and intercontinental comparisons and connections. The chapter presents personal and theoretical reflections on the challenges of writing an economic history of Africa that is integrated in thematic, spatial, and temporal terms. It is an…
The Africa-China relationship
The dramatic growth in the relationship between Africa and China is one of the great stories of the twenty-first century, part of the profound transformations taking place in the global political economy. It has been greeted with excitement, consternation, and confusion. To its cheerleaders, it represents the enduring partnership between Africa and China, spawned by the historical affinities of struggles against Western imperialism and humanistic…
Mandela’s Long Walk with African History
Obama's Africa Policy
The election of Barack Obama as the first African-descended president of the United States in 2008 was greeted with euphoria in the U.S. and around the world, including Africa. Little, however, changed in the substance of U.S.-Africa relations. This underscores the limits of the symbolic politics of race and presidential personalities in the face of the structural imperatives of U.S. power and foreign policy in which African interests remain marg…
The African struggle continues
2011 will be remembered as a momentous year in North Africa when the sclerotic dictatorships of Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya collapsed. Until then, the region seemed implacably immune to the democrati
Building intellectual bridges
The study of Africa and its peoples in the United States has a complex history. It has involved the study of both an external and internal other, of social realities in Africa and the condition of people• of African descent in the United States. This paper traces and examines the complex intellectual, institutional, and ideological histories and intersections of African studies and African American studies. It argues that the two fields were foun…
Building intellectual bridges
The study of Africa and its peoples in the United States has a complex history. It has involved the study of both an external and internal other, of social realities in Africa and the condition of people of African descent in the United States. This paper traces and examines the complex intellectual, institutional, and ideological histories and intersections of African studies and African American studies. It argues that the two fields were found…
Pan-Africanism in the Age of Obama
(2011). Pan-Africanism in the Age of Obama: Challenges and Prospects. The Black Scholar: Vol. 41, A Forum on Manning Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, pp. 34-44
Reconceptualizing African Diasporas
This commentary interrogates Clarke's paper on African diasporas. It argues that though Clarke seeks to open new analytical lenses on African diasporas by focusing on postslavery African diasporas, it does not advance the scholarship on the subject because of its limited conceptions of Africa and the global dimensions of African diasporas. As is common in Eurocentric African studies, “Africa” is seen as coterminous with sub-Saharan Africa, and Cl…
Dancing to the beat of the diaspora
This essay examines the complex ebbs and flows of musical exchanges between Africa and its diasporas. Specifically, it focuses on musical engagements between, on the one hand, the Caribbean and West Africa and, on the other, the United States and Southern Africa. It argues that the influence of diasporan music on modern African music, especially popular music, has been immense. These influences and exchanges have created a complex tapestry of mus…
African Diasporas
This article interrogates the development of African diaspora studies. Based a global research project that seeks to map out the dispersals of African peoples in all the major regions of the world, compare the processes of diasporization, and examine the patterns of diaspora engagements, it offers a vigorous critique of the hegemonous Afro-Atlantic model in African diaspora studies. It focuses on two critical challenges that students of African d…
The Media in Social Development in Contemporary Africa
What Happened to the African Renaissance? The Challenges of Development in the Twenty-First Century
The essay discusses the trajectory of the African renaissance as an idea and a project, a task that in essence entails examining Africa's postcolonial development paradigms, performances, and prospects. It is argued that this idea represents a recurrent yearning for a usable future aching deep in the consciousness of a people with painful memories of suffering, struggle, and survival against the historical ravages of slavery, colonialism, and neo…
Africa and Its Diasporas
This paper explores Africa's engagements with the Diaspora in South America. It argues that the linkages have far deeper roots than is generally recognized by focusing on nineteenth-century demographic and cultural flows. The paper begins by offering broad conceptual notes on the complex connections between homelands and host lands in the Diaspora experience. This is followed by a brief survey of physical movements between South America and Afric…
Dancing with the Dragon
This paper examines the deepening economic relationship between Africa and China as manifested in the explosive growth in trade and investment. Celebrated by some and condemned by others, it is a relationship that cannot be ignored and is of great interest to African and Chinese policy makers and peoples. It has raised concerns in Western capitals and the media and is the subject of a rapidly expanding literature. The paper explores the three dom…
The Pasts and Futures of African History
(2007). The Pasts and Futures of African History: A Generational Inventory This article is based on a paper compiled for the University of South Africa, Department of History, as part of their Sixtieth Anniversary Commemoration Series, presented in Pretoria, 8 Aug. 2006. I thank the participants at the seminar for their comments and input, which helped in the revision of the paper. . African Historical Review: Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 1-24
Colonial Fictions
This essay is a commemoration and celebration of the work of the late Yvonne Vera, one of Africa's most cosmopolitan and gifted writers. It argues that history was central to Vera: it animated her imagination, framed her stories, her characters, and her literary vision. History looms large in the African intellectual and literary imagination as a source of anxiety, anger, and affirmation for a people whose humanity was once derided and even denie…
The Troubled Encounter Between Postcolonialism and African History1
This paper examines the complex engagements between what it calls the "posts" - poststructuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism - and African studies. Specifically, it analyzes the analytical connections and contestations between postcolonial theory and African historiography. The paper interrogates some of the key ideas and preoccupations of both postcolonialism and historiography and explores the intersections between them. It is argued th…
A modern economic history of Africa
Barack Obama and African Diasporas
Rewriting the African diaspora
This essay argues that despite the growing popularity of diaspora studies, our understanding of the African diaspora remains limited by both the conceptual difficulties of defining what we mean by the diaspora in general, and the African diaspora in particular, and the analytical tendency to privilege the Atlantic, or rather the Anglophone, indeed the American branch of the African diaspora. It begins by trying to explore the various conceptions …
African Diasporas
This article interrogates the development of African diaspora studies. Based a global research project that seeks to map out the dispersals of African peoples in all the major regions of the world, compare the processes of diasporization, and examine the patterns of diaspora engagements, it offers a vigorous critique of the hegemonous Afro-Atlantic model in African diaspora studies. It focuses on two critical challenges that students of African d…
Cutting down Trees
The Politics of Historical and Social Science Research in Africa
This paper, on the institutional, ideological, and intellectual politics of producing historical and social science knowledge in Africa, was prepared as the keynote address for the Conference on 'Historical and Social Science Research in Malawi: Problems and Prospects' held in Zomba in June 2000 from which the papers in this special issue of the Journal of Southern African Studies are drawn. It is reproduced here in the format in which it was pre…
The Troubled Encounter Between Postcolonialism and African History1
This paper examines the complex engagements between what it calls the "posts" - poststructuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism - and African studies. Specifically, it analyzes the analytical connections and contestations between postcolonial theory and African historiography. The paper interrogates some of the key ideas and preoccupations of both postcolonialism and historiography and explores the intersections between them. It is argued th…
The African Academic Diaspora in the United States and Africa
The Politics and Poetics of Exile
This paper focuses on one central trope of Edward Said's work—exile. Exile looms large in Said's personal, professional, and political life as an existential and epistemological condition, as a spatial and temporal state of being, belonging, and becoming, and in its material and metaphorical contexts. Said spent a large part of his early exiled life in Africa, in Egypt, and Egypt remained an important place where he would frequently return and th…
Obama's Africa Policy
The election of Barack Obama as the first African-descended president of the United States in 2008 was greeted with euphoria in the U.S. and around the world, including Africa. Little, however, changed in the substance of U.S.-Africa relations. This underscores the limits of the symbolic politics of race and presidential personalities in the face of the structural imperatives of U.S. power and foreign policy in which African interests remain marg…
Dancing with the Dragon
This paper examines the deepening economic relationship between Africa and China as manifested in the explosive growth in trade and investment. Celebrated by some and condemned by others, it is a relationship that cannot be ignored and is of great interest to African and Chinese policy makers and peoples. It has raised concerns in Western capitals and the media and is the subject of a rapidly expanding literature. The paper explores the three dom…
What Happened to the African Renaissance? The Challenges of Development in the Twenty-First Century
The essay discusses the trajectory of the African renaissance as an idea and a project, a task that in essence entails examining Africa's postcolonial development paradigms, performances, and prospects. It is argued that this idea represents a recurrent yearning for a usable future aching deep in the consciousness of a people with painful memories of suffering, struggle, and survival against the historical ravages of slavery, colonialism, and neo…
Africa and Its Diasporas
This paper explores Africa's engagements with the Diaspora in South America. It argues that the linkages have far deeper roots than is generally recognized by focusing on nineteenth-century demographic and cultural flows. The paper begins by offering broad conceptual notes on the complex connections between homelands and host lands in the Diaspora experience. This is followed by a brief survey of physical movements between South America and Afric…
The Pasts and Futures of African Studies and Area Studes
No abstract
A Modern Economic History of Africa. Volume 1
Leveraging Africa’s Global Diasporas for the Continent’s Development
In this paper I seek to share some of the insights I have gained from my studies on the African diaspora over the past two decades. It begins by mapping out some of the analytical framings of African Diaspora Studies, with particular reference to the spatial scope and temporal dimensions of the African diaspora. This is followed by an examination of the multiple and multi-layered contributions that African diasporas have made and continue to make…
Colonial Fictions
This essay is a commemoration and celebration of the work of the late Yvonne Vera, one of Africa's most cosmopolitan and gifted writers. It argues that history was central to Vera: it animated her imagination, framed her stories, her characters, and her literary vision. History looms large in the African intellectual and literary imagination as a source of anxiety, anger, and affirmation for a people whose humanity was once derided and even denie…
A Modern Economic History of Africa. Volume I. The Nineteenth Century
Burying SM
The Democratic Transition in Africa and the Anglophone Writer
Ces dernières années les thèmes de liberté et démocratie ont remplacé ceux de développement et de construction de la nation et ils dominent les discours de politiques et d'études africaines. La majorité des analyses, celles qui diagnostiquent la nature de la crise africaine de gouvernement ainsi que celles qui prescrivent des solutions, ont tendance à être d'orientation politique et économique. L'article déclare que les discussions morales et cul…
Pan-Africanism in the Age of Obama
(2011). Pan-Africanism in the Age of Obama: Challenges and Prospects. The Black Scholar: Vol. 41, A Forum on Manning Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, pp. 34-44
Manufacturing and consuming knowledge
The article examines the problems facing African scholars and publishers, in the context of rapid developments in information technology and a deepening economic gulf between industrialised and Third World countries. Many of these problems, and conventional responses to them from libraries, publishers, and donors, are themselves a legacy of colonial relations, the most significant of which is the deepening dependence on Western forms of knowledge…
Dancing to the beat of the diaspora
This essay examines the complex ebbs and flows of musical exchanges between Africa and its diasporas. Specifically, it focuses on musical engagements between, on the one hand, the Caribbean and West Africa and, on the other, the United States and Southern Africa. It argues that the influence of diasporan music on modern African music, especially popular music, has been immense. These influences and exchanges have created a complex tapestry of mus…
The Pasts and Futures of African History
(2007). The Pasts and Futures of African History: A Generational Inventory This article is based on a paper compiled for the University of South Africa, Department of History, as part of their Sixtieth Anniversary Commemoration Series, presented in Pretoria, 8 Aug. 2006. I thank the participants at the seminar for their comments and input, which helped in the revision of the paper. . African Historical Review: Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 1-24
Out in the Cold
The Tribulations of Undressing the Emperor
Edward Said, the Palestinian-American intellectual, is arguably the most exciting, if not the most distinguished, cultural and literary critic now writing in North America. In an age when literary critics seem preoccupied with the petty concerns of post-modernism, Said engages the large questions of comparative historical analyses of literature and cultural politics. His focus is unusually broad and complex; his analysis is multi-layered and rich…
River of Blood
The Democratic Transition in Africa and the Anglophone Writer
Ces dernières années les thèmes de liberté et démocratie ont remplacé ceux de développement et de construction de la nation et ils dominent les discours de politiques et d'études africaines. La majorité des analyses, celles qui diagnostiquent la nature de la crise africaine de gouvernement ainsi que celles qui prescrivent des solutions, ont tendance à être d'orientation politique et économique. L'article déclare que les discussions morales et cul…
The Tribulations of Undressing the Emperor
Edward Said, the Palestinian-American intellectual, is arguably the most exciting, if not the most distinguished, cultural and literary critic now writing in North America. In an age when literary critics seem preoccupied with the petty concerns of post-modernism, Said engages the large questions of comparative historical analyses of literature and cultural politics. His focus is unusually broad and complex; his analysis is multi-layered and rich…
Cutting down Trees
Adjusting to Policy Failure in African Economies
Burying SM
Out in the Cold
Manufacturing and consuming knowledge
The article examines the problems facing African scholars and publishers, in the context of rapid developments in information technology and a deepening economic gulf between industrialised and Third World countries. Many of these problems, and conventional responses to them from libraries, publishers, and donors, are themselves a legacy of colonial relations, the most significant of which is the deepening dependence on Western forms of knowledge…
The Pasts and Futures of African Studies and Area Studes
No abstract
A Modern Economic History of Africa. Volume I. The Nineteenth Century
A Modern Economic History of Africa. Volume 1
People of the Plow
980 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE in 1992, engaged historians of cartography with communications theory, postmodernist criticism, semiotics, and much else. Taken to gether, these approaches have compromised the idea that scientific objectivity and technical prowess are the principal criteria by which cartographic advances should be judged. But these have remained Thrower’s standards. Although he cites works in the “new” history ofcartograp…
People of the Plow
Dimensions of Development with Emphasis on Africa
The Politics of Historical and Social Science Research in Africa
This paper, on the institutional, ideological, and intellectual politics of producing historical and social science knowledge in Africa, was prepared as the keynote address for the Conference on 'Historical and Social Science Research in Malawi: Problems and Prospects' held in Zomba in June 2000 from which the papers in this special issue of the Journal of Southern African Studies are drawn. It is reproduced here in the format in which it was pre…
The African Academic Diaspora in the United States and Africa
Gender Biases in African Historiography
In the last two decades the literature on African women has grown rapidly. This can be attributed to several factors, including the political impetus of the women's movement and the crisis of conventional development theory and practice, and the consequent rise of the women-in-development project. For the discipline of history, more specifically, interest in women's history has been spawned by the widening horizons of historical epistemology and …
The Politics and Poetics of Exile
This paper focuses on one central trope of Edward Said's work—exile. Exile looms large in Said's personal, professional, and political life as an existential and epistemological condition, as a spatial and temporal state of being, belonging, and becoming, and in its material and metaphorical contexts. Said spent a large part of his early exiled life in Africa, in Egypt, and Egypt remained an important place where he would frequently return and th…
Rewriting the African diaspora
This essay argues that despite the growing popularity of diaspora studies, our understanding of the African diaspora remains limited by both the conceptual difficulties of defining what we mean by the diaspora in general, and the African diaspora in particular, and the analytical tendency to privilege the Atlantic, or rather the Anglophone, indeed the American branch of the African diaspora. It begins by trying to explore the various conceptions …
The disciplinary, interdisciplinary and global dimensions of African studies
In discussing African studies or any other field, it is important to note that the economies and cultures of knowledge production are an integral part of complex and sometimes contradictory, but always changing, institutional, intellectual and ideological processes and practices that occur, simultaneously, at national and transnational, or local and global levels. From their inception, universities have always been, or aspired to be, universalist…
The Pasts and Futures of African History
(2007). The Pasts and Futures of African History: A Generational Inventory This article is based on a paper compiled for the University of South Africa, Department of History, as part of their Sixtieth Anniversary Commemoration Series, presented in Pretoria, 8 Aug. 2006. I thank the participants at the seminar for their comments and input, which helped in the revision of the paper. . African Historical Review: Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 1-24
Colonial Fictions
This essay is a commemoration and celebration of the work of the late Yvonne Vera, one of Africa's most cosmopolitan and gifted writers. It argues that history was central to Vera: it animated her imagination, framed her stories, her characters, and her literary vision. History looms large in the African intellectual and literary imagination as a source of anxiety, anger, and affirmation for a people whose humanity was once derided and even denie…
The Troubled Encounter Between Postcolonialism and African History1
This paper examines the complex engagements between what it calls the "posts" - poststructuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism - and African studies. Specifically, it analyzes the analytical connections and contestations between postcolonial theory and African historiography. The paper interrogates some of the key ideas and preoccupations of both postcolonialism and historiography and explores the intersections between them. It is argued th…
The Struggle for Human Rights in Africa
This article seeks to explore the recent changes that have occurred in Africa's human rights landscape. It argues that struggles for, recognition of, and the practice of human rights have grown and expanded in recent years in the midst of continuing challenges and widespread human rights violations by both state and civil society actors. The complex and contradictory tapestry and trajectory of human rights is analyzed in the shifting contexts of …
Dancing with the Dragon
This paper examines the deepening economic relationship between Africa and China as manifested in the explosive growth in trade and investment. Celebrated by some and condemned by others, it is a relationship that cannot be ignored and is of great interest to African and Chinese policy makers and peoples. It has raised concerns in Western capitals and the media and is the subject of a rapidly expanding literature. The paper explores the three dom…
Political science (30 obras) · History (23 obras) · Sociology (23 obras) · Law (18 obras) · African history and culture studies (16 obras) · Politics (15 obras) · Gender Studies (13 obras) · Geography (13 obras) · Diaspora (9 obras) · Economics (9 obras)