What Does It Mean to Be an African Scholar?

i'm curious about what all this means for you. You've spent your whole career basically teaching at western universities. What does it mean to be an african intellectual working prim yin the west, but also engaged in all these cultural and political debates about africa? It has always, again, been a paradox. i think i've done whatever i could to promote scholarship and knowledge on africa in the united states and in europe. But of course, what i realized at one point i wasn't doing as much for scholarship in africa. So one of the things i've been doing recently is to actually begin to slowly shift my intellectual energies,. especially towards trying to develop and help