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This edited volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolving landscape of African studies in the new millennium. It details new trends, approaches, and theoretical frameworks that have the potential to shape the future of the discipline. Curated by the up-and-coming scholar Eric Tsimi in collaboration with the distinguished anthropologist Andrea Behrends and field-leading decolonial theorist Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, this collection explores methods and approaches being developed across the humanities and social sciences for decolonizing knowledge, facilitating knowledge transfer, and addressing perceived gaps between theory and practical emergencies. For its broad coverage of a broad interdisciplinary field, as well as for its in-depth insights into the latest developments within the field as a whole, African Studies Now is a must-have for researchers and students of African studies, global development, indigenous studies, and related fields and disciplines.

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Author:   Eric Essono Tsimi (Northwestern University, USA) ,  Andrea Behrends (University of Bayreuth, Germany) ,  Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   1.040kg
ISBN:  

9781350466067

ISBN 10:   1350466069
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   16 October 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Prelude: Insights from the New Wave by Éric Essono Tsimi Prolegomena: Blueprint for Decolonial Epistemologies by Sabelo Ndlovu-Gathseni Interlude: Outlining New Frontiers by Andrea Behrends Chapter 1. Afropolitanism, Afro-Radicalism, and Afrocentricity: A Pan-African Approach from an Afrotropic Standpoint by Mathias Eric Owona Nguini Chapter 2. On the Entrapment of Francophone Africa: Reevaluating the Decolonial Semantics by Éric Essono Tsimi Chapter 3. Decolonizing the Training Curricula in Social Sciences in Cameroon: The Urgency of Contextualization By Estelle Kouokam Chapter 4. Selfhood through Indigenous Knowledge: Overcoming the Violence of Colonial Knowledge Politics by Claude Abé Chapter 5. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Racial Disavowal, White Injury, and the Post-Apartheid State in Deon Meyer’s Novels by Marzia Milazzo Chapter 6. The Trouble with Jinns: (Re)Making Space for Spirits in Decolonial Ecologies by Adeline Masquelier Chapter 7. Unpacking African Societal Dynamics with Peter Geschiere and Florence Bernault by Brice Molo Chapter 8. Shaping the 21st Century: A Conversation with Andrea Behrends on Travelling Models, Resource Management, and African Transformations by Éric Essono Tsimi Chapter 9. Epistemic Freedom, Decoloniality, and Transnational Perspectives – Interview with Sabelo Ndlovu-Gathseni by Éric Essono Tsimi Chapter 10. Cinematic as a Transformative Tool for the Therapeutic Intellectual by Jean-Pierre Bekolo

Reviews

Amidst ongoing debates around ""decolonizing"" academic disciplines––debates that have often remained focused on and in the Global North––African Studies Now offers a timely and critical intervention. Across an impressive range of disciplines (history, anthropology, philosophy, political science), this volume recentres African perspectives, rethinks approaches, and refreshes our conceptual vocabularies. Above all, the contributions assembled here assert Francophone Africa as a vibrant site of intellectual and cultural production: that is, where some of the most important and exciting conversations in African Studies are happening, right now. * Doyle D. Calhoun, University of Cambridge, UK *

Author Information

Eric Essono Tsimi is Associate Professor of Francophone African Studies at Northwestern University, USA. He has won several awards and fellowships including the Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, the CUNY Scholar Incentive Award, the Paula Berggren Enrichment Fund Award, and the PSC-CUNY Award. Andrea Behrends is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig, where she serves as the Head of the Institute of Anthropology. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Professor of History and holder of Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier 1 in Pluralistic Societies: Epistemic Pluralism and Ecologies of Knowledges at the University of Calgary in Canada. He previously held the Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa at the University of Bayreuth in Germany.

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