View the H-Africa Discussion Logs by month
View the Prior Message in H-Africa's December 1998 logs by: [date] [author] [thread] View the Next Message in H-Africa's December 1998 logs by: [date] [author] [thread] Visit the H-Africa home page.
No, I don't agree with Connie Anderson. I don't think that, generally speaking, standards are decreasing (on African history). On the contrary, I strongly think that standards are rising in the new French generations, partly because they feel freer facing colonial times (they were born later), and also partly thanks to the beginning of a "deconstructing" effort. Just now, there is a rise of younger historians of excellent quality, not many (we have never been many in France), but more than before, and probably better. The same in francophone Africa. There are now several excellent scholars, for more than twenty years to my mind, in spite of huge difficulties. Is there a different feeling in other parts of Africa?
|