African Studies Now

Eric Essono Tsimi is Associate Professor of Francophone African Studies at Northwestern University, USA. He has won several awards and fellowships including the Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, the CUNY Scholar Incentive Award, the Paula Berggren Enrichment Fund Award, and the PSC-CUNY Award.Andrea Behrends is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig, where she serves as the Head of the Institute of Anthropology.Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Professor of History and holder of Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier 1 in Pluralistic Societies: Epistemic Pluralism and Ecologies of Knowledges at the University of Calgary in Canada. He previously held the Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa at the University of Bayreuth in Germany.

Amidst ongoing debates around "decolonizing" academic disciplines––debates that have often remained focused on and in the Global North––African Studies Now offers a timely and critical intervention. Across an impressive range of disciplines (history, anthropology, philosophy, political science), this volume recentres African perspectives, rethinks approaches, and refreshes our conceptual vocabularies. Above all, the contributions assembled here assert Francophone Africa as a vibrant site of intellectual and cultural production: that is, where some of the most important and exciting conversations in African Studies are happening, right now.

• 01 . Introduction Éric Essono Tsimi, Andrea Behrends, and Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni02. Inheriting One’s Heritage: Restitution and Decolonization Seloua Luste Boulbina03. Overcoming Epistemic Coloniality: Reappropriating Self through Indigenous Knowledge Claude Abé04. Exploring the Interplay of Afropolitanism, Afro-Radicalism, and Afrocentricity: A Pan-African Approach from an Afrotropic Standpoint Mathias Éric Owona Nguini05. Racialization of the Arabic Language Through the Francophone Lens of Sansal Sana Alaya Seghair06. On the Entrapment of Francophone Africa Éric Essono Tsimi07. Decolonizing the Training Curricula in Social Sciences in Cameroon Estelle Kouokam08. Provisional Notes on Africa’s Political Epistemology Pélagie Chantal Belomo Essono09. The Motion of Memory: Cinema as Re-enactment in Postcolonial Healing Jean-Pierre Bekolo10. Reimagining African Scholarship: Epistemic Freedom, Decoloniality, and Transnational Perspectives Éric Essono Tsimi and Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni11. A Conversation with Andrea Behrends on Travelling Models, Resource Management, and African Transformations Éric Essono Tsimi and Andrea Behrends12. Decolonial Currents and Mystical Traditions Brice Molo, Peter Geschiere, and Florence Bernault13. Afterword Amber Murrey