The Multiple Ways of Writing African Intellectual History

I'm quite excited about the debates that are taking place at the moment around de-colonizing the curriculum specifically but also around thinking about what it means to decolonize history. It started out in the 1960s as a project, as essentially a decolonizing project, as a project to write an African history for an independent Africa. The radical roots of that discipline I think are really important that we keep hold of and we remember and try to be inspired by today. We've already touched on some of the ways in which increasing numbers of sub-disciplines are developing different methodologies to all get at the same set of issues and ideas.