Writing National and Transnational History in Africa

The Example of the ‘Dakar School’

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ID20053520
AuthorsIbrahima Thioub (corresponding author)
Year2007
Pages197-212
Publication date2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueWriting the Nation (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230223059_9
OpenAlexW2481049028
ISBN9780230223059
LanguageEN
References cited17

For more than half a century, African scholars working in university institutions have been engaged in the writing of their societies' history. In the case of the Dakar historians, the texts that heralded their entrance into the academic sphere were produced by Abdoulaye Ly and Cheikh Anta Diop in the mid-1950s. While their contemporary Léopold Sédar Senghor, one of the leading lights of the Négritude movement founded in Paris in the 1930s, concentrated more on linguistics, literature and ethnology, his approach to history is also of some interest here. The thinking of these three figures, seen as the founding fathers of the Dakar School, continues to exert a degree of influence over the currents and tendencies found in contemporary African scholarship. Each of them constitutes a major intellectual pole, and their legacy has lost none of its vigour in Senegalese academic circles.1KeywordsSlave TradeAfrican SocietyAfrican CivilisationFrench ColonialHistory WritingThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

History of Africa · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African Studies and Ethnography · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · North African History and Literature

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