A Brief Historiography of African Economic History
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Date
2021-11-11Author
Maliehe, Sean
Editor
Schraten, Jürgen
Further Contributors
Department of Sociology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
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http://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-552Abstract
The paper recalls the long history of colonial exclusion of African perspectives from economic history. The struggle for the recognition of local perspectives is not only part of the fight for democracy, but essential precondition for science to overcome power related distortions of truth.