Postcolonial African Anthropologies Edited by Rosabelle Boswell and Francis Nyamnjoh

ISBN: 9780796925695

HSRC Press, 2016

Paperback, 222 pages

Postcolonial African Anthropology showcases some postcolonial ethnographies and aims to figure out how and why anthropology has engaged with conversations on decolonisation and postcolonialism. The postcolonial ethnographies in this book show that Africans may not necessarily interpret and communicate their experiences in the ways that anthropologists trained in Western institutions and disciplines do, but they are multi-vocal and are ever present to speak with authority on their experience. This book, then, deepens and diversifies conversations on Africa and, in particular, a ‘postcolonial’ Africa to understand the position of anthropologists, the position of Africans and the positioning of the discipline of anthropology in Africa.