Africa, Are We There Yet?” Taking African Mobilities Seriously—Concluding Remarks

Bibliographic Data

ID9374633
AuthorsKudzai Matereke (Independent researcher, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume6
Issue2
Pages112-119
Publication date2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransfers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2045-4813 • E-ISSN: 2045-4821
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/trans.2016.060208
OpenAlexW2480784762
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Adopting an African-focused perspective in the analysis of African experiences of mobility enables us to confront the limits imposed by a historicist-induced articulation of African experiences of mobility. This article offers some concluding remarks to a section on African mobilities and attempts a critical analysis of how an African-based perspective of mobility serves to decenter or provincialize the Western-centric discourses of mobility. This undertaking is important in the attempts to fashion African modes of thought that serve as a counternarrative to European thought and to subvert the misrepresentations of im/mobilities of Africa and things African

Art · Articulation (sociology · Mobilities · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · China's Global Influence and Migration · Gender Studies · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law

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