2023/09/18 by Cissé, Chikouna
#African University #African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES) #African independence #Joseph Ki-Zerbo #ego-history
paper · doi:10.57832/qnp5-s940
This article analyzes the eminent role played by historian Joseph Ki-Zerbo in the 1968 creation of a pan-African epistemic community at the very dawn of independence: the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES). Ki-Zerbo's role cannot be understood by ignoring the historical context of the post-war period, when the battle to end the remnants of subjection was in full swing with the end of an African university under the Western academic mantle. This is why my theoretical approach crosses the paths of institutional history (the CAMES) with the biography of an individual to understand the overall history of a society or institution. To fuel my analysis, I draw mainly on the Cames archives, academic works devoted to Ki-Zerbo, his own sketches of ego-history and my book on the history of the CAMES.