| Abstract: | In his presentation of constricting and enabling contingencies within which social science is practised in Africa, the author first deals with local problems faced by African social scientists, both as individual researchers and as a community, emanating from the increasingly repressive character of African States and ideological dictates such as nationalism, modernization and developmentalism. All this has led to severe restrictions on academic freedom. The African research community, while seeking to contend with local level constraints, is simultaneously attempting to negotiate past the gatekeepers at the sites where the study of Africa takes place, viz. the countries of the North. There is a sharp divide between African social scientists and their Africanist counterparts and the larger international social science community. Africans and Africanists have yet to constitute a community of scholars working on Africa. It is in the interests of both to do so. Bibliogr., notes, ref. (Also published in: Concepts and metaphors: ideologies, narratives and myths in development discourse, ed. by Henrik Secher Marcussen & Signe Arnfred, Roskilde, 1998, p. 92-119.) |
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