| Introduction | 1 |
| 1 | From African Historiographies to an African Philosophy of History | 13 |
| 2 | Ancestral Slaves and Diasporic Tourists: Retelling History by Reversing Movement in a Counternationalist Vodun Festival from Benin | 65 |
| 3 | Called to Hear the Word of God: Musa Kongola's Autobiography | 85 |
| 4 | "What Have We, Jo-Ugenya, Not Done? We Have Even Killed an Arab/Swahili Hermaphrodite": Constructing a History of the Jo-Ugenya-Arab/Swahili War by Means of a Saying | 103 |
| 5 | Lexical Borrowings as Pathways to Senegal's Past and Present | 125 |
| 6 | Reconstructing Modern African Business History | 149 |
| 7 | African Art: New Genres and Transformational Philosophies | 165 |
| 8 | The Role of Traditional Music in the Writing of Cultural History: The Case of the Abaluyia of Western Kenya | 191 |
| 9 | The Global History of African Music: The Kenyan Song "Malaika" | 209 |
| 10 | Telling Africa's Past in Literature: Whose Story Is It Anyway? | 219 |
| 11 | Representation of a Colonial Reality: World War I in La Victoire en chantant and Amhoullel, l 'Enfant peul | 239 |
| 12 | "Good Men in Africa"? From Missionaries to Mercenaries | 251 |
| 13 | The Horror of Reproduction in Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines | 263 |
| 14 | Performing Trauma: The Body as Site of (De)colonization in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions | 273 |
| 15 | Child Abuse or Conflict of Interest? Maryse Conde's Autobiographical Writings | 289 |
| 16 | Colonization or Globalization? Ernst Udet's Account of East Africa from 1932 | 297 |
| 17 | State and Civil Society in Local and Global Contexts: Colonial Contact and Bourgeois Reforms among the Yoruba of Nigeria | 315 |
| 18 | Stolen Places: Archaeology and the Politics of Identity in the Later Prehistory of the Kalahari | 345 |
| 19 | The Guest is a Hot Meal: Questioning Researchers' Identities in Mande Studies | 375 |
| 20 | Writing Yoruba Female Farmers into History: A Study of the Food Production Sector | 387 |
| 21 | Packaging Scholarship | 405 |
| 22 | Mindscapes of Politics in Africa: Twixt Remembering and Forgetting | 419 |
| Contributors | 437 |
| Index | 443 |
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