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Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa by Ousmane Oumar Kane (review) by Austen, Ralph A

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Struggling with the African Bildungsroman by Austen, Ralph A

“…The term “bildungsroman” (novel of “formation,” “cultivation,” or “development”) has, since the 1980s, come into wide use among critics of African (and more…”
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Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and Their Hinterland, C. 1600-C. 1960 by Austen, Ralph A, Derrick, Jonathan

“…This book is about 'middlemen': Africans who functioned as intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland for over 300 years. Based on written and…”
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Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and their Hinterland, c.1600–c.1960 by Austen, Ralph A., Derrick, Jonathan

“…The Duala people entered the international scene as merchant-brokers for precolonial trade in ivory, slaves and palm products. Under colonial rule they used…”
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Finding the Historical Wangrin or the Banality of Virtue by Austen, Ralph A.

“…The hero of Amadou Hampâté Bâ’s canonical book, L’étrange destin de Wangrin, was a historical figure. However, the rich, if incomplete, colonial records of…”
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SCHOLARSHIP ON AFRICA IN A TROUBLED COMPARATIVE FRAME by AUSTEN, RALPH A.

“…(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) As indicated in his title, Felix Brahm seeks to make a comparative study of scholarship on Africa in Germany…”
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Comment on Jean-Pierre Warnier's "“The Grassfields of Cameroon: Center or Periphery?"” by Austen, Ralph A

“…There remain several questions about chronology: the evidence of trade dates from European contacts with the coast from the late seventeenth century (Warnier…”
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THE MEDIUM OF “TRADITION”: AMADOU HAMPÂTÉ BÂ’S CONFRONTATIONS WITH LANGUAGES, LITERACY, AND COLONIALISM by Austen, Ralph A

“…In his efforts to communicate his research on African “tradition”—more specifically oral texts—Hampâté Bâ was faced with a choice of languages and alphabets…”
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Colonialism from the Middle: African Clerks as Historical Actors and Discursive Subjects by Austen, Ralph A.

“…In a review of my first published book one of the founding figures of african historical studies suggested that instead of giving so much attention to European…”
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The Slave Trade as History and Memory: Confrontations of Slaving Voyage Documents and Communal Traditions by Austen, Ralph A.

“…African and African-American memories (or oral traditions) of the slave trade are unambiguously subjective. Their very existence depends on the concerns that…”
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AMADOU HAMPÂTÉ BÂ’S LIFE AND WORK RECONSIDERED: CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES by Austen, Ralph A, Soares, Benjamin F

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Monsters of Protocolonial Economic Enterprise: East India Companies and Slave Plantations by Austen, Ralph A.

“…This article examines the Dutch and English East India companies and the mainly British and French Caribbean slave plantations during the seventeenth and…”
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German Colonialism in a Global Age ed. by Bradley Naranch, Geoff Eley (review) by Austen, Ralph A

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The Economic Value of British Colonial Empire in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Austen, Ralph A., Smith, Woodruff D.

“…This article reviews recent research on aspects of the long‐standing debate among historians over the question of whether or not, on the whole, colonial…”
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From a Colonial to a Postcolonial African Voice: "Amkoullel, l'enfant peul" by Austen, Ralph A.

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Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology . Isidore Okpewho. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014. Pp. xii+279 by Austen, Ralph A.

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From a Colonial to a Postcolonial African Voice: Amkoullel, l'enfant puel by Austen, Ralph A

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Le jeu et le sérieux: essai d'anthropologie littéraire sur la poésie épique des chasseurs du Mande (Afrique de l'ouest) by Austen, Ralph A.

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The Medium of “Tradition”: Amadou Hampâté Bâ's Confrontations With Languages, Literacy, and Colonialism by Austen, Ralph A.

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AFRICAN STUDIES IN BERLIN BETWEEN THE WARS - Afrikawissenschaften in Berlin von 1919 bis 1945: Zur Geschichte und Topographie eines wissenschaftlichen Netzwerkes. By Holger Stoecker. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2008. Pp. 359. 49€, hardback ( isbn 978-3-51509-161-9) by AUSTEN, RALPH A.

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