African historiographies : what history for which Africa?

Introduction - Bogumil Jewsiewicki One Historiography or Several? A Requiem for Africanism PART ONE: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF AFRICAN STUDIES African Historians and Africanist Historians - Ndayel E Nziem Knowledge and Perceptions of the African Past - Jan Vansina Epistemological Ethnocentrism in African Studies - Wyatt MacGaffey PART TWO: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ORAL DISCOURSE Profile of a Historiography - Henri Moniot Oral Tradition and Historical Research in Africa The Past in the Present - Jean Bazin Notes on Oral Archaeology Confronting the Unequal Exchange of the Oral and the Written - J P Cretien African History and the Rule of Evidence - David Henige Is Declaring Victory Enough? Afterthoughts on the Historiography of Oral Tradition - Jan Vansina PART THREE: AFRICA FROM THE OUTSIDE: FROM IMPERIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY TO AFRICANIST HISTORIOGRAPHY The Idea of Progress in the Revision of African History, 1960-1970 - Caroline Neale Decolonization in Africa - Michael Twaddle A New British Historiographical Debate? Africanist Historiography in France and Belgium - Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and Bogumil Jewsiewicki Tradition and Trends Africanist Historical Studies in the United States - David Newbury Metamorphosis or Metastasis? The Historiography of South Africa - Shula Marks Recent Developments PART FOUR: AFRICA FROM WITHIN: NATIONAL HISTORIOGRAPHIES Nigerian Academic Historians - E J Alagoa Nigeria - Paul E Lovejoy The Ibadan School and its Critics Marxian Method and Historical Process in Contemporary Ethiopia - Robert S Love Senegalese Historiography - Mohamed Mbodj and Mamadou Diouf Present Practices and Future Perspectives The Development of Sengalese Historiography - Martin A Klein Historical Research in Zaire - Mumbanza Wa Bawele and Sabakinu Kivilu Present Status and Future Perspectives PART FIVE: WHICH WAY OUT? TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPING HISTORIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA The Method of 'Histoire Immediate" - Benoit Verhaegen Its Application to Africa Dar es Salaam and the Postnationalist Historiography of Africa - Henry Slater Populist Political Action - Jean-Francois Bayart Historical Understanding and Political Analysis in Africa Toward a Responsible African Historiography - Christophe Wondji