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Dissertation / thesis Dissertation / thesis Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:African historiography written by Africans, 1955-1973: the Nigerian case
Author:Kapteijns, LidwienISNI
Year:1977
Issue:7
Pages:152
Language:English
Series:Research reports
City of publisher:Leiden
Publisher:African Studies Centre
Geographic terms:Subsaharan Africa
Nigeria
Subjects:historiography
bibliography
theses (form)
External link:https://hdl.handle.net/1887/484
Abstract:In the first part of this essay the development of the study of African history is sketched, and the historical studies written by professional African historians from 1955 to 1972-3 are analysed. Special attention is paid to the manisfestoes of the 1960s, programmatical declarations of what African history should be and how it should be written. Part two traces in detail what historical studies were actually produced in the fifteen years that followed independence in one particular West African country, Nigeria.