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Globalization, Global History, and AfricIntroduction to Global History (Seminar) | Hessler, Hui, Mohebi
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Afric
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Africa in a Glo
African Ren
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Questions
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Introduction | History | Globa
Tilmann Dedering
Associate Professor in the History department of the University of South Africa
(MA - Free University Berlin; PhD - University of Cape Town)
Research interest: Namibian studies; modern German history; world history; globalisationInternet
Tel: 012 429 6869Email: [email protected]
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Introduction | History | Globa
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Introduction | History | Globa
Central Questions
How did Eurocentric and Afrocentric ideas influence the debate about Africas poface of global challenges?
What are the different views on the integration of Africa into a comprehensive pichistory?
Where can postcolonial Africa be located in the global world? How can the impacglobalization to Africa be perceived?
Where should Africa intersect with the rest of the world in regard of African valuesmorality? What is African Renaissance and how should it proceed?
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African History
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Periodizations in Modern African History
Slavery Colonialism
Liberation & Nationalism,
Dependencies
Post/Neocolonialism
Postcolonialism (Democ.
& Developm.), Legacies
Glob
Demo
Globa
Slavery as itself
Slave trade as
explotation Impact on Africa?
Consolidation ofAfrica
Dependency(ideological,structural, ...)
Temporarilyprospering
Opportunism /Pragmatism
Party State /Development StateContradiction State
Francophone /Anglophone
3 H
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A. R
UnderstandAfricas ma
genuine
Ancient / (Pre)Modern
Times
I t d ti | Hi t | Gl b l
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Introduction | History | Global
Africa In A
Introduction | History | Global
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Introduction | History | Global
Views on Africa: David Landes | Andre Gunder Frank | Jared Diamond
Why are some so rich and some so poor?
--> Unprecedent economical, scientific, technical advances --> increasing divergence
Why did the West become the leading global power and leave the rest behind?
--> Europe unleashed inventive spirit and expanded geographical & intellectual horizons
--> Inventing important technologies, improving productivity, creating art
--> PROGRESS (other countries werent able to overcome retarding cultural elements)
Introduction | History | Global
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Introduction | History | Global
Views on Africa: David Landes |Andre Gunder Frank (I) | Jared Diamond
No European exceptionalism --> Asia the economical engine of global history:
More populous, more productive, more advanced
Decline of Asias economy enabled Europes rise
-->[...]Europeans grabbed the opportunity [...] because they had the advantage of explrelations with the Americas and Africa (273)--> economic, scientific, technological improv
Introduction | History | Global
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Globalization new word for old phenomenon
Imperialism, industrial revolution & capitalism do not explain global history
Colonialism just a single phase in history of global interaction
--> Claims to marginalize Africa far less than most Africanists
Views on Africa: David Landes |Andre Gunder Frank (II) | Jared Diamond
Introduction | History | Global
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Why did some have a head start, which have placed them in a more advantageo
Difference between advanced an primitive irrelevant
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Agriculture-->Urbanisation-->Political Centralisation / Sophisticated Culture / Technic
Isolation --> Develop themselves --> Technological Handicaps
--> Isolation (divergence) + slavery (society) + colonialism (economy)
-->Difficulties to compete in the global arena
GEOGRAPHY and BIOGRAPHY as catalysators of dynamics
Views on Africa: David Landes | Andre Gunder Frank | Jared Diamond (II)
Introduction| History | Global O
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Globalization
Where can postcolonial Africa be located in the global world?
Unbroken line of historical continuity between the past and present, as it fuses the newbuzzword globalization with the old one of colonialism
Satanic Forces, Africans as the eternal victims of circumstances
Whether or not Africans should be involved in this inhospitable global world
Back to the roots / timeless tradition fixed
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African
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African Renaissance
The complex ways in which the multi-faceted socioeconomic, political, and cultural idenand the whole continent, have been shaped and how these various histories should bthe global world (Dedering)
Some main questions:
What is our understanding of the term African identity?
Who is African, and how do people fit into it?
How do Africans recover marginalised voices?
Are there core African values which need to be recovered?
Introduction | History | Global
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African Renaissance from various perspectives
Mahmood Mamdani(born in 1947 in Uganda, teaching in Columbia University)Create an awareness of African-centered knowledge and place it in a wider global histor
Achille Mbembe(born in 1957 in Cameroon, PhD in France, working in Columbia University)
Inability to imagine Africa outside the contradictory legacies inherited from modernity
Kwesi Prah(Director of The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society / CT, Sociologist and Anthropologist at various
Pan-Africanists' view on how "war, pestilence, drought and famine, economic stagnation
confusion and AIDS have taken control over our lives"
Paul Gilroy(born in 1956 in London, Professor at the London School of Economics)
No return to the idealized roots of an African identity
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Critiques
South African perspective, South Africa not really representative for the African contine
Collection of opinions, hardly an own opinion
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Central Questions
How did Eurocentric and Afrocentric ideas influence the debate about Africas poface of global challenges?
What are the different views on the integration of Africa into a comprehensive pichistory?
Where can postcolonial Africa be located in the global world? How can the impacglobalization to Africa be perceived?
Where should Africa intersect with the rest of the world in regard of African valuesmorality? What is African Renaissance and how should it proceed?
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Thank You!Hessler, Hui, Mohebi
Sources
T. Dedering: Globalization, Global HisJournal of Asian and African Studies 20G. Hyden: The Movement Legacy; in: a Comparative Perspective; CambridgePress; London; 2005; 314 pp.S. Friedman: An accidental advance? 2009 Elections; Journal of Democracy,pp. 108 122P. Vale / S. Maseko: South Africa andRenaissance; in: Royal Institute of Inter
Vol. 72, No. 2, 1998, pp. 271-287The African Renaissance, http://webdepts/ricsa/confer/me99/procs/pro_afrThe Motherland Trailer, http://web.uricsa/confer/me99/procs/pro_afre.htm
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