1968/07/01 by Terence Ranger · 164 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #African history and culture studies #North African History and Literature #African history and culture analysis #Intelligentsia #Historiography #Nationalism #Resistance (ecology) #History #Power (physics) #TRACE (psycholinguistics) #Politics #Political science #Ancient history #Law #Archaeology #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1017/s0021853700008665
published in The Journal of African History 9(3), 437-453 (Cambridge University Press)
openalex publication_date 1968/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
A recent authoritative review of developments in African historiography pointed to one 'kind of synthesis which has always seemed worthwhile undertaking’, the attempt to trace ‘an historic connexion between the last-ditch resisters, the earliest organisers of armed risings, the messianic prophets and preachers, the first strike-leaders, the promoters of the first cautious and respectful associations of the intelligentsia, and the modern political parties which (initially at least) have been the inheritors of European power’.