African Philosophy of History in the Contemporary Era: Its Antecedents and Methodological Implications for the African Contribution to World History

Dissertation, Temple University (1998)
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This study presents an examination of the relationship between the construction of historical narratives and the construction of individual and social identity in the work of select African historical thinkers from antiquity to the modern era. It is concerned more specifically with describing how some Africans in the modern era have used concepts of the continental and Maafan African past--particularly concepts of classical Africa--to inform their cultural and political sensibilities. ;This is not a study of the writing of history proper; rather, it is an attempt to explore some of the ways in which the past is conceptualized, inscribed and created in order to meet social, political and psychological needs in the present. More specifically, it is an examination of some of the ways that these processes have operated in select Africana nationalist, nationalist-sympathetic and nationalist-influenced discursive formations and intellectual movements in the modern era. ;After the discussion of the general discursive context of the study, review of prior research and afrocentric research methodology, the development of African historical thought prior to and after the advent of the Maafa is addressed in chapters four, five and six. Chapter five traces the emergence in the nineteenth century of a corpus of African historical thinkers who conceptualized the importance of regional and global African identities and African historical continuity. Chapter six continues the discussion of these figures and chapter seven brings the lineage into the twentieth century. After a symbolic convergence of select strains of African-Centered historical thought in 1954, the description of the lineage of historical thinkers emerging from the mid twentieth century will comprise the balance of chapter eight. ;As a dissertation in the Department of African-American Studies at Temple University, this dissertation also seeks to contribute to the articulation and operationalization of distinctly Africana Studies disciplinary traditions and methodologies

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