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Call for Papers
| Location: | Kentucky, United States |
| Publication Date: | 2006-03-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2005-12-12 |
| Announcement ID: |
148931 |
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We are looking for additional contributors to an edited volume on COLLABORATIVE HEGEMONY MISSIONS, STATES, AND EUROPEAN EXPANSION IN AFRICA. The volume aims to explore the role of Christian missions in the making of African societies as well as how they acted as either hegemonic forces or counter hegemonic forces in the construction of colonial societies. As Western hegemonic forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial in establishing and maintaining political, cultural, and economic domination. Indeed both elements of Africa’s encounter with the West played pivotal roles in shaping African identities during the 19th and 20th centuries. The study of the contested and collaborative nature of Christianity and colonization in the historiography of colonial Africa, with few exceptions, has received scant attention partly because historians tend to study these two forces in isolation, thus minimizing the relationship between church history and colonialism. Even when missionary enterprise and colonialism has been the focus of inquiry, the hegemonic relationship between mission and Africans on one hand and colonialism on the other has not been clearly delineated and carefully studied. This volume begins from quite different assumptions: that is, the dialogues between European missionaries and Africans on the one hand and between missionaries and imperial officials on the other, provide a historical anthropology of two cultures attempting to understand, contend with, and accommodate each other in a context in which African societies were confronted by an externally imposed/dominant and imperialist cultures.
We are particularly looking for papers that will cover Central Africa, for instance Belgian missionaries in the Congo, and/or Rwanda/Burundi; French West Africa; and Ethiopia. We also welcome contributions on North Africa, Ethiopia and Sudan.
Please contact Raphael Chijioke Njoku at rc.njoku@louisville.edu OR
Chima J. Korieh ar Korieh@rowan.edu for more information
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Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Department of History
Gottschalk Hall 101
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
AND/OR
Chima J. Korieh
Department of History
Rowan University
Glassboro, NJ 08028
Tel: 856 256 4500 ext 3994
Fax: 856 2564791
Email: Korieh@rowan.edu
Email: rc.njoku@louisville.edu
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