Africa in Theory

by Achille Mbembe

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Theory has been the name of the West's attempt at domesticating contingency as well as the way the West has distinguished itself from the Rest. As the new century unfolds, it is increasingly acknowledged that there is no better laboratory than Africa to gauge the limits of our epistemological imagination, or to pose new questions about how we know what we know and what that knowledge is grounded upon. A site of unfolding developments that are contradictory, uneven, contested, and for the most part undocumented, the Continent is perhaps the epicentre of contemporary global transformations.

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  • ISBN13 9781868145461
  • Publish Date 28 February 2015
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country ZA
  • Imprint Wits University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 304
  • Language English